She opened it and read as follows: "Dear Sister Ninette, "I feel that I shall shall soon leave you, but I will not talk to you about it, for the sad time will come only too quickly.

One only wish that I have greatly at heart I now lay before you, and that is, that you will take my child under your protection for as long as she may need your care.

I shall leave very little money behind me, but I beg you to employ this little in teaching Dora something that will enable her, with God's help, to support herself when she is old enough.
"Do not, my dear sister, give way to your grief; try to believe as I believe, that God will always take our children under his care, when we are obliged to leave them and can no longer provide for them ourselves.

Receive my heartfelt thanks for all the kindness you have shown to me and my child.

God will reward you for it all." Aunt Ninette read and re-read these touching lines, and could not help growing calmer as she read.