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afterward, when caught stealing, she didn’t even know it was wrong to steal. When compelled to confess, she told of stealing things that she never stole at all, explaining that “Missis told me to ’fess and I couldn't think o’ nothin’ else to ’fess.” So she told of stealing earrings and burning them up, when, as a matter of fact, little Eva St. Clare had them in her ears at the time.
There was something in the black child that touched the kindly heart of little Eva, who, though but a child herself, had, by
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