Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara
> opened a letter from home one evening. Inside the letter was a $100
> bill her parents had sent.
>
> Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture. As she read the letter by the
window,
> she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post
below.
> Quickly, she wrote, "Don't despair. Sister Barbara," on a
> piece of paper, wrapped the $100 bill in it, got the man's attention
and
> tossed it out the window to him. The stranger
> picked it up, and with a puzzled _expression and a tip of his hat, went
> off down the street.
>
> The next day, Sister Barbara was told that a man was at her door,
insisting
> on seeing her. She went down, and found the stranger waiting.
> Without a word, he handed her a huge wad of $100 bills.
>
> "What's this?" she asked.
> "That's the $8,000 you have coming Sister," he replied.
> "Don't Despair paid 80-to-1."