“Granted it is thoughtlessness rather than carelessness, why do you not make it your business to do missionary work among your fashionable sisters and help save the birds.�
The girl shook her head slowly.
“I haven’t enough influence. I do use what I have. But it does no good. Woman’s vanity is such that she will sacrifice even the lives of innocent little birds for the sake of adding to her finery. O, I am really disgusted with my sex when I think of it.�
“Why not use the other power you have and make women see this as you do?�
Tibby looked at Donald thoughtfully.
“I’ll do it. When I get back to—�
“Civilization, you mean. Why not say it? I shall not be offended.�
“The first service I attend in church I’ll make every woman feel the weight of the poor bird upon her hat, if possible. It shall be the heaviest sin upon her conscience. She shall feel the ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ But you have not told me what you did kill.�
“Nothing except prairie chickens and a gray wolf.�
“Are there wolves here?�