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wife, “he never says anything, not even ‘mama,’
he never smiles.”
I wrapped him up in my travelling rug and
went to see Monsieur le Curé who was kind enough
to send his housekeeper to buy a woollen shirt
and a warm shawl for our journey.
The Curé looked at me attentively and said:
“It is my duty as a priest to condemn and
chastize immorality and vice, but I cannot
refrain from telling you, my young friend, that I
respect you for trying at least to atone for your
sin, a sin so much the more heinous as the
punishment falls on the heads of innocent little children.
It was high time to take him away, I have buried
dozens of these poor abandoned little babies and
I would have buried your boy as well ere long.
You have done well, I thank you for it,” said the
old curé tapping me on the shoulder.
We were just on the point of missing the night
express for Paris, there was no time for
explanations. John slept peacefully the whole night
well wrapped in his warm shawl while I sat by
his side wondering what on earth I was going to
do with him. I really believe that had it not
been for Mamsell Agata I would have taken
him straight from the station to Avenue de
Villiers. I drove instead to the Crèche St. Joseph
in Rue de Seine, I knew the nuns well. They
promised to keep the boy for twenty-four hours
till a suitable home had been found for him.
The nuns knew of a respectable family, the
husband was working in the Norwegian margarine
factory in Pantin, they had just lost their only
child. The idea suited me, I drove there at once
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