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A few days later the Judge stood at the foot of the staircase leading up to the children's rooms and inwardly wondered.
Bethany was kneeling down on the top step. "O, Lord, forgive me for what I am about to do," she prayed, piously; then she unclasped her hands and took in them a crumpled handkerchief.