to secure a fair deal for their people. Later
experience, both my own and that of others,
has confirmed me in this view. Had it not
been for strong friends in the East and on the
press, and the unusual boldness and disregard
of personal considerations with which we
had conducted the fight, I could not have
lasted a month. All other means failing,
these men will not hesitate to manufacture
evidence against a man's, or a woman's,
personal reputation in order to attain their
ends.

It was a great disappointment to us both
to give up our plans of work and our first
home, to which we had devoted much loving
thought and most of our little means; but
it seemed to us then the only thing to do.
We had not the heart to begin the same thing
over again elsewhere. I resigned my posi-
tion in the Indian service, and removed with
my family to the city of St. Paul, where I
proposed to enter upon the independent
practice of medicine.

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