"What a dreadful punishment!" exclaimed Mary.
"No worse than what happened to Mrs. Lott. She looked back when that town was burning up, and she was made into salt."
"Why, that's so!"
The stories and strange arguments of the half-breed made a greater impression on the mind of Mary Cunningham than she at first realised. She had always accepted the teachings of the Bible without reserve, and now, to have native customs and Indian superstitions paralleled with the stories in which she had believed from childhood was bewildering to her already vexed and frightened mind. Her faith in the Scriptures was not lessened by the odd doctrines to which she had listened, but it did make her the more sympathetic and receptive to the influences that were being set against her.
Little did she think th
