had told him, doubtful of the future, that@
she knew the invention would win out--?@
the Thunder Bird go where nothing earthly
had ever gone before.

And he had whispered something--.
something surpassing--about a Wise
Woman who saved a city.

It made sacred every thought now, and
humbled it, too, in the breast of this little
sixteen-year-old girl, with the mingled yarn
in her nature--the mingling spice in her
name.

Others had these fair stoles, too, the
history of their girlish lives woven in pearls
of typical purity, crossed by vivid representations
of events. Drooping to their
knees, in symbolic beauty, finishing with
the soft leather fringes on which a breeze
sweeping down the wide chimney played,
they flashed here and there in the high
colors of adventure--the quaintly symbolized
adventure tale.

Rut none could match the theme of the
two little primitive figures upon the moun-
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