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 like a child over Grandma Sheldon 's little letter . `` There 's nobody all bad , '' says Grandma when she relates the story . `` I used to believe a murderer must be , but I know better now . I think of that poor man often and often . He was so kind and gentle to me -- he must have been a good boy once . I write him a letter every Christmas and I send him tracts and papers . He 's my own little charity . But I 've never been on the cars since and I never will be again . You never can tell what will happen to you or what sort of people you 'll meet if you trust yourself on a train . '' The Romance of Jedediah Jedediah was not a name that savoured of romance . His last name was Crane , which is little better .
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