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Wallula was a young girl, and this mystery of a Christmas-box was full of delight to her; but just then a greater delight the joy of Major Molly's fidelity made her forget everything else. But Molly did not forget. The minute she had finished her story she sprang to her feet, and produced the contents of the box.
We stopped a day or two at Walla Walla, where one of the early forts was established; the post having been transferred from Wallula, where it was called Fort "Nez Perces," from the Indians in that vicinity, who wore in their noses a small white shell, like the fluke of an anchor.
At the time of the coming of the missionaries the Cayuse Indians and Nez-Percés occupied the elbow of the Columbia, and the region of the musical names of the Wallula, the Walla Walla, and Waülaptu. They were a superstitious, fierce, and revengful race. They fully believed in witchcraft or conjuring, and in the power to work evil through familiar spirits.
Molly, they knew, could ride as well as a little Indian, and was familiar with every inch of the way, as she had said, and Wallula was her friend. "And 't wouldn't 'a' done the least bit o' good to hev set myself any more against her.
If something would only happen to rouse Wallula, she thought, as she watched her. There had come a visitor to their cabin the other day, the chief of a neighboring tribe. When he saw Wallula, he said he would come again and bring his little daughter. If he would only come soon! If he would only But, hark! what was that? Was it an answer to her wish, her prayer? Was he coming now now?
Some of these were from their military friends, and most of them were directed to "Major Molly," the name that had been given to Molly when she was a little tot of a thing, and the pet of the fort where she lived. On this Christmas day, as she watched her mother fold up the pretty bright tartan dress that was to be her Christmas present to Wallula, she said gleefully,
You may take boat at Celilo, above the Dalles, and steam up to Wallula, where you take stage for Elkton, a station on the Pacific Railroad, in Utah; this journey shows you the heart of the continent, and is said to abound in magnificent scenery. I have not made it, but it is frequently done.
And, jumping to her feet, the woman ran to the door and flung it open. Yes, yes, it was in answer to her prayer; for there, over the turf, she could see a horse speeding towards her. It was coming at breakneck speed. "Wallula! Wallula!" she turned and called. An echo seemed to repeat, "Lula, Lula!"
"Don't forget, mamma, to write on the box, 'Wallula's Christmas present from Major Molly." It had been Molly's intention to have Wallula to tea on Christmas eve, and then and there to bestow upon her the pretty gift.
We're going to see Wallula, to carry her something nice, just as quick as we can go," the little fellow whinnied softly, as if in response; and the next moment, at Molly's "Now, Tam," he started forward at his best pace, a pace that Molly knew so well, and knew she could trust, firm and even and assured, and gaining, gaining, gaining at every step.
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