It is the grace of God." LeNoir stared at him, and then Macdonald Bhain went on to tell him how his brother had suffered and struggled long, and how the minister's wife had come to him with the message of the forgiveness of the great God.

And then he read from Ranald's English Bible the story of the unforgiving debtor, explaining it in grave and simple speech.
"That was why," he concluded.

"It was because he was forgiven, and on his dying bed he sent you the word of forgiveness.

And that, too, is the very reason, I believe, why the lad here went to your help this day." "I promised the minister's wife I would do you good and not ill, when it came to me," said Ranald.

"But I was not feeling at all like forgiving you.