"When any one does not mean to do wrong, and means not to do wrong,
then there is nothing but to trust to the good God and pray to Him for
help; for He can turn our evil into His good, and He will do so when
we are truly repentant over evil. I know all this from my
grandmother's teaching; for once I was in great distress, and did not
know what to do."

Then she told about Rico and the lake that he was always thinking of,
and how she was the cause of his running away, and full of fear that it
had cost him his life. But she said that she felt perfectly at ease
after she had cast her burden on the Lord; and she advised Mrs. Menotti
to do likewise, and assured her that she would derive the truest comfort
from so doing. After this conversation Mrs. Menotti felt much relieved,
and said they would all go to rest now, and thanked her young counsellor
for her advice.




CHAPTER XX.

AT HOME.


One beautiful Sunday morning in autumn, Mrs. Menotti seated herself on
the garden-bench in the midst of the glowing red flowers, and
thoughtfully gazed about her,--now at the oleander and laurel bushes,
now at the fig-trees laden with fruit, and again at the vines heavy with
golden grapes; and she said, softly, "God knows I should be glad if I
could lay aside this feeling of wrong-doing that weighs on my