ittle Mary will not be blind, and where she will not only hear the
songs of the angels, but see their shining faces. God, make me good and
keep me true. Amen."

THE PRIEST AND THE WOMAN

TO A NUN WITHOUT CLOISTER

V

THE PRIEST AND THE WOMAN

Near the doorway of a house in a narrow street, where Death had lodged
yesterday night, stood a Priest. A woman, passing by, knelt at his feet,
passionately kissed the hem of his robe, and hurried on, beneath an Arch,
into a Garden where there were many flowers and a Shrine to the Blessed
Virgin.

The Priest did not move. But a flush of unwonted color rose into his white
face and made it crimson with shame.

"After all these years," he sighed.

* * * * *

"Ave Maria! Ave Maria!" wailed the voice of the woman in the Garden where
there were many flowers, before the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin.

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