We make people true, the master says, by putting confidence in them.

I believe in the old chief and in Benjamin, and there will no evil ever come to the schoolmaster or the log school-house." "Gretchen, are you sure?
Then I did not bring you away out here for nothing, did I?
You may be the angel of deliverance of us all.

Who knows?
But, Gretchen, I haven't told you all yet." Mrs.Woods's face clouded again.
"The Injun told husband that some of the warriors had formed a plot against _me_, and that, if they were to capture me, they would torture me.
Gretchen, I am afraid.

Don't you pity me ?" "Mother, I know my power over the chief and Benjamin, and I know the power of a chief's sense of honor.

I do pity you, you are so distressed.