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or not, she continued to hold fast her profession 
of faith, without wavering, and does to this day. 
Chief Caulker himself became a Christian a 
few years afterward, and died. A few months 
after his conversion Lucy (then Mrs. Reamy) em- 
braced the opportunity to free herself from what 
she regarded as an unholy alliance. She proposed 
to her so-called husband that they should now be 
married according to Christian usage or she 
would return to her native town, which she did 
while he was on a visit to his friends in England. 
She went to work in earnest to build her a com- 
fortable house, which hy her good management and 
industry was soon accomplished, and in which 
she lived until about one year after the death of Mr. 
Reamy, which took place the first of the year 
1875, when she was married again. From the 
time she left Mr. Eeamy until his death he gave 
her a little financial help, to enable her to educate 
their four children, which she was attending to 
well. She was an excellent Christian worker 
while at Shengay ; and since her removal the last 
time she is reported as being faithful and earnest 
in her endeavors to lead others to accept of Christ 
as their Savior. 
Mr. Thomas Tucker, who when he first came 
to the mission was an exceedingly ignorant 
and unpromising youth, has from the first been a 
