These Indians had come to seek the advice of Mr.
Mann in regard to their tribal affairs.

Gretchen also was right.

They had come to ask Mr.Mann to teach their nation.
It was an unexpected assembly that Marlowe Mann faced as he came down the clearing, but it revealed to him, at a glance, his future work in life.
The first of the distressed people to meet him was Mrs.Woods.
"O Mr.Mann, I am all alone in the world, and what am I goin' to do?
There's nothin' but hard days' work left to me now, and--hymns.

Even Father Lee has gone, and I have no one to advise me.

You will be a friend to me, won't you ?" "Yes," said Mr.Mann.