Now , we 'll know where to send -- '' `` That is Mark Hartwell , who shot Amos Gray at Charlotteville three weeks ago , '' said William George quietly . Grandma looked at him blankly for a moment . `` It could n't be , '' she gasped at last . `` That man a murderer ! I 'll never believe it ! '' `` It 's true enough , Mother . The whole story is here . He had shaved his beard and dyed his hair and came near getting clear out of the country . They were on his trail the day he came down in the train with you and lost it because of his getting off to bring you here . His disguise was so perfect that there was little fear of his being recognized so long as he hid that scar . But it was seen in Montreal and he was run to earth there . He has made a full confession . '' `` I do n't care , '' cried Grandma valiantly . `` I 'll never believe he was all bad -- a man who would do what he did for a poor old woman like me , when he was flying for his life too . No , no , there was good in him even if he did kill that man . And I 'm sure he must feel terrible over it . '' In this view Grandma persisted . She never would say or listen to a word against Mark Hartwell , and she had only pity for him whom everyone else condemned . With her own trembling hands she wrote him a letter to accompany the money Samuel sent before Hartwell was taken to the penitentiary for life . She thanked him again for his kindness to her and assured him that she knew he was sorry for what he had done and that she would pray for him every night of her life .
Mark Hartwell had been hard and defiant enough , but the prison officials told that he cried XXXXX a child over Grandma Sheldon 's little letter .
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