Delia Clark goes west for her health, and is warmly welcomed by cousins in Colorado. However, she overlooks the main thing, life in the open, and two months later finds her condition worse. She is on the point of going back east when a young Indian, a graduate of Carlisle, determines to take matters into his own hands. Realizing that it will be a waste of time to try to persuade the white girl, brought up in a large eastern city, to live the sort of life she should, in order to get thoroughly well, he resorts to "the silent way" of the Indian. He has some of his tribe abduct Miss Clark. For eight months she is obliged to stay among the Indians and to adapt herself to their methods of life. At the end of eight months her cousins, who have been searching for her far and near, are overjoyed by Della's safe return, and by the miraculous fact of her complete cure.
