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wounded girl mended rapidly from the start.
In due time Brenda recovered sufficiently to bear transportation to
Prescott, where she joined her uncle and cousins. Rapid changes
quickly followed. I received orders directing me to report for duty at
once at the Seabury Military School, and by the same mail came letters
from Colonel Burton directing his sons to accompany me. At the end of
the next fortnight, just as we were packed for a journey to the
Pacific coast, Brenda received instructions from her maternal
relatives to make the same journey, and joined us.
Frank and Henry's project to transport their ponies East, and their
plans for Manuel and Sapoya, were also carried out. Boys and ponies
became a prominent contingent to the corps of cadets under my military
instruction during the following three years.
Later, Henry went to West Point and became an officer of the army.
Frank and Manuel went to college, the former becoming a distinguished
civil engineer and the latter a prominent business man. Sapoya closed
his school career at Seabury, and rejoined his people in the Indian
Territory, becoming a valued and respected leader of his people.
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