The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-18

and truly into your stomach" she
asked.
That's what we believe" answered
Martin.
ut must be NICE" she said. "They
don't have such things in our church.
Anyway, don't go to church Father
says my governess can give me all
the religion / need. But she never
tells me things like you."
For several days succeeding her in
terview with Martin Miss Dorothy
Merritt was distracted in her studies.
There was one great problem which
she was trying to get into her mind
with satisfactory explanation, and
that was the possibility of a little
girl receiving into her little body the
great God who filed all the earth
and sea and sky and even beyond all
that. The problem, however, soon be-
came too much for her shoulders, and
she sought assistance in bearing the
burden by proposing to Miss Hilton,
the sour, bespectacled governess, the
question as to how bread and wine
could be changed into the Body and
Blood of the Lord.
tits all nonsense" said Miss Hill
ton. Wherever in the world did you
get that queer notion?"
II heard papa tell about it at my
birthday dinner and so l went and
asked Martin all about it," said
Dorothy.
well, Martin ought to be ashamed
of himself" said Miss Hilton indig-
nantly. "The idea of filing your head
with such foolishness. It's only Cath
olics could believe thing so out
rageous as the changing of bread and
wine into the Body and Blood of the
Lord"
'But if the Lord said so, Miss Hill
ton," demonstrated Dorothy, 1--WE
ought to believe it. There's lots of
hard things to understand in the Bible,
but you often said that we must be
lieve what God says even if we\ can't
understand it, and Martin says it's in
the Bible how God said This is Ny
Body"
"Now, Miss Dorothy, I refuse to
talk such foolishness; and moreover,
shall tell your father to prevent Mar
tin from perverting your reason"
please DON'T" pleaded the girl,
HE only just answered my questions"
But when Miss Hilton determined
to do a thing she was thereafter i'm
movable. And so before the night Mr..
Merritt had heard how his coachman
had been trying to make Catholic
of his beloved child. To him it was
an objectionable piece of imperti-
hence, and, needless of the explana-
tons of Martin himself and the tears
of Dorothy, he dismissed from his
service the faithful coachman, whose
boast it was that he had been at the
Great House even before the days of
the curse.
WELL" said Giblin sarcastically, as
Martin was preparing to leave, 81
guess you were right about that curse,
Lally, only it struck the wrong party
this time"
Never fear" said Martin, I'm old
and l can stand it. It's better to be
on me than on the little one"
And so he passed from the hill to
the little town below in the valley.
That night the new coachman ar.
rived at the hill.
To Dorothy it seemed as if part
of her life had gone when on the fol
lowing day she entered the carriage
for her accustomed drive. 1t was all
different now, with strange driver
upon the seat, where often she had
sat by the side of Martin, listening to
his queer talk and funny stories
What a different companion he had
been from the sour governess, who
was now by her side, by the com
mand Of Mr.. Merritt, who had not seen
fit trust his daughter to the sole
care of the new coachman. Even the
horses seemed to miss the familiar
hand of the old Irishman, for they
were restless under the strange rein
What it was that startled the
horses no one ever knew, but scarce
ly had they descended the hill and
passed through the gateway Of the
park, when they dashed off on wild
run through the town. The driver
! tugged and strained, but he was
powerless against the brute force oil
the animals. At the sudden turn in
the road, where it branched off into
the country the carriage was upset:
Miss Hilton was thrown out upon the
rocks by the way, with Dorothy cling
ing fast to her from deadly fright
while the coachman was dragged
along in the dust at the heels of the
maddened horses.
Miss Hilton had been killed in
stantly by the fall upon the rocks
and the coachman had been man
gled beyond all recognition. The
life of Dorothy had been saved by the
manner in which she had chung tt
the governess, thus avoiding the i'm
pact with deadly rocks. But she
had not come from the accident, un
injured. For several days she lay as
one dead. The most famous special
lists of the country came to the hill
to do their best to give back life and
youth to the afflicted child. She
would live, they said, but her spine
had been injured seriously, and she
would ever be an invalid.
To the afflicted father the sentence
of the doctors had made the sun de
scend forever from the crest of the
hill, and like a thundercloud in the