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The Log School-House on the Columbia

CHAPTER XVIII
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The agency now is near Pendleton, Oregon.

Thither the Umatillas were removed.
Marlowe Mann went there, and Gretchen as his young wife, and in their home Mrs.Woods for many years could have been heard singing hymns.
Their home stood for the Indian race, and the schoolmaster and his wife devoted themselves to the cause of Indian education.

Through the silent influence of Mr.Mann's correspondence with the East, Indian civilization was promoted, and the way prepared for the peaceful settlement of the great Northwest.
Gretchen taught the Indians as long as she lived.

Often at evening, when the day's work had been hard, she would take her violin, and a dream of music would float upon the air.

She played but one tune at last as she grew serenely old.


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