ful
living the darkness grows less, as if, somewhere in the boundless
heavens, the mercy of God was making itself felt in the heart of her who
once called herself my mother."

And hearing her speak thus, I felt my own breast lose something of the
oppression which had hitherto weighed it down. And as the days passed,
and I experienced more and more of the true peace that comes with
perfect love and perfect trust, I found my tears turned to rejoicing and
the story of my regrets into songs of hope.

And so I have come back comforted and at rest. If there are yet ghosts
haunting the old inn, I do not see them, and though its walls are
dismantled, its custom gone, and its renown a thing of the past, I can
still sit on its grass-grown doorstep and roam through its fast-decaying
corridors without discovering any blacker shadow following in my wake
than that of my own figure, bent now with age, and only held upright by
the firmness of the little cane with which I strive to give aid to my
tottering and uncertain steps.

The grace of God has fallen at last upon the Happy-Go-Lucky Inn.

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