can you not help me?'"

"But I thought Mamma died in peace?" suddenly questioned Rosa. "I remember
toward the end that she was anxious to go, and at last said that she was
going to heaven."

"Yes, my beloved madame did indeed die in peace. Sometime after she had
asked me whether I could help her she said, 'Teresa, read again that last
letter from my sister. I have it here under my pillow.' I read it to her as
best I could, and as I finished she said to me, 'Read it again, Teresa. Oh,
if only my dear sister were here this minute!" Twice again I read the
letter, but still she was not satisfied. 'Those last words, Teresa, Read
them again to me, please.' And again I read them."

"Do you remember those last words, Teresa?" Catalina asked as she listened
with rapt attention to the story she had heard so often from the lips of
our old servant.

"I don't remember all. I would have liked to have kept the letter. It was
such a letter that would help any one to die, for it was certainly a
treasure. But my poor madame wished to carry it to the tomb with her, and
no doubt it is there yet in her hands, poor little angel. As I remember it,
the letter concluded thus: 'He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life,
and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out!'"

"I read these, the last words of the letter, a dozen times over to her and
she seemed to take hold of them as a drowning man would grasp a board that
floated by him--then without movement, with her eyes shut, she seemed to be
sleeping, but every once in a while she appeared to be talking with
someone."