He called in his wife and together
they planned to bury Julie's mother as a Catholic should be buried, they
to stand all the expense. They have also undertaken to see that the
younger children are sent to school and the grandmother properly cared
for, and Julie is to return to her place here on Monday.
"I wish you could have seen her face when I went back to those two
dreadful rooms in the alley where she lives and told her what the
superintendent and his wife had said. She stared at me, amazed,
incredulous; then said slowly in an awed whisper:
"'They do all that for me, Julie Benoit the thief! You tell the lady it
is I who steal her money but she forgive and have my mother buried like
a Christian. She have her taken into church where the priest will bless
her and pray over her. She have her buried where I can go and kneel
beside her grave and tell her that I love her still and that I forget
her never, no never. The lady do all that for me who steal her money.
But she is good, she is kind to forgive me.'
"After a moment's thought, she added: 'You think God will forgive me
too? I very bad, very wicked; I say all those dreadful things about Him,
but He will forgive me, is it not so? Grandmother say He good and kind.
You think He will forgive me if I ask Him?'
"It was a very different Julie that I left that night; oh! very
different from the girl who met me with such fierceness earlier in the
evening.
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