The burning disk of the sun hung in clouds of pearl like an oriel-window in a magnificent temple.

Black shadows fell on the placid waters of the Columbia, and in the limpid air under the bluffs Indians fished for salmon, and ducks and grebes sported in river weeds.
Marlowe Mann went away from the log school-house that night a happy man.
He had seen that his plans in life were already budding.

He cared little for himself, but only for the cause to which he devoted his life--to begin Christian education in the great empire of Oregon.
But how unexpected this episode was, and how far from his early dreams! His spirit had inspired first of all this orphan girl from the Rhine, who had been led here by a series of strange events.

This girl had learned faith from her father's prayers.

On the Rhine she had never so much as heard of the Columbia--the new Rhine of the sundown seas..