She will come to me if you will send word to her.

They would not listen to me at Rosenthal's when I begged them to bring her to the store." She lifted her head and stared wildly about her.

"Oh, the injustice of it all--and the awful horror of this place! How can men do such things?
I told them the truth, Father, I told them the truth.

I never stole it.

How could I ever steal anything?
How dared he speak to me as he did ?" She turned, straining her whole body as if in mortal anguish; then, with her shoulder against the hard, whitewashed wall, she broke at last into sobs.
The priest sat still, waiting and watching, as a surgeon does a patient slowly emerging from delirium.
"Men are seldom reasonable, my good woman, when they lose their property, and they often do things which they regret afterward.