A paltry sum was handed to me, more for the sake of getting rid of the mendicant than to relieve my distress.

I felt that the sum offered was insufficient to supply the demands of my sick daughter and my starving boy.

I was turning in despair away when my eye lit upon a package of money resting on the safe.

For a moment I hesitated, but the thought of my children rose uppermost in my mind, and, seizing the package I hurried from the store." "So you did take the money," said Harry.
"Yes," she replied, "but it did me little good, for when the doctor was called he pronounced my daughter beyond medical skill.

She died that evening, and all the use to which the money was appropriated, was the purchase of a coffin." "Then the--the--" said Harry, hesitating to use the word theft, "then, it was not discovered that you had taken the money until your child was dead and buried." "No," she said, "listen--my child lay enrobed in her garment of death, and the sun was fast declining in the west, when Mr.Swartz and two constables entered the room and arrested me.