CHAPTER XVI.

1869-1870.--Home Desolate.--At the General Assembly.--Summer Campaign.--A. L. Riggs.--His Story of Early Life.--Inside View of Missions.--Why Missionaries' Children Become Missionaries.--No Constraint Laid on Them.--A. L. Riggs Visits the Missouri Sioux.--Up the River.--The Brules.--Cheyenne and Grand River.--Starting for Fort Wadsworth.--Sun Eclipsed.--Sisseton Reserve.--Deciding to Build There.--In the Autumn Assembly.--My Mother's Home.--Winter Visit to Santee.--Julia La Framboise 244