" Miss Prudence had placed it
there especially for Mrs. Kemlo.
Deborah had never been alone in the house in the years when her mistress
was making a home for herself elsewhere.
Over the mantel hung an exquisite engraving of the thorn-crowned head of
Christ. The eyes that had wept so many hopeless tears were fixed upon
it as Marjorie and Prue entered the chamber.
"This is Miss Prudence's little girl Prue," was Marjorie's introduction.
Prue kissed her and stood at her side waiting for her to speak.
"That is the Lord," Prue said, at last, breaking the silence after
Marjorie had left them; "our dear Lord."
Mrs. Kemlo kept her eyes upon it, but made no response.
"What makes him look so sorry, Morris' mother?"
"Because he is grieving for our sins."
"I thought the thorns hurt his head."
"Not so much as our sins pierced his heart."
"I'm sorry if I have hurt him. What made our sins hurt him so?"
"His great love to us."
"Nobody's sins ever hurt me so."
"You do not love anybody well enough."
The spirit of peace was brooding, at last, over the worn face. Morris had
left her with his heart at rest, for the pain on lip and brow began to
pass away in the first hour of Miss Prudence's presence.
Prue was summoned after what to her seemed endless waiting, and, nestling
in Aunt Prue's lap, with her head on her shoulder and her hand in hers,
she sat still in a content that would not stir itself by one word.
"Little Prue, I want to tell you a story.
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