I kept it there.

It was like stealing from the Lord.

It'll bring him bad luck.

Mostly it was in the Gospels--just a bank-note here and there--sixty-one dollars and seventy-three cents it was." She seemed to be talking to herself rather than to the man and woman at her side.

She went on--sometimes a babble they could not comprehend, as in pity and wonder they stood over her.
Then again her voice rose, "He took it from the book of God.