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Show RECEIVES FORGIVENESS. When Charles 1. Ncrcross, now a well known Washington correspondent, corre-spondent, was a reporter on tho Now York Tribune, lie was sent one Saturday Sat-urday to interview Father Ducoy, n priest famous in New York both for his wit nnd his good deeds. Father Ducoy was in tho confes-sional. confes-sional. Xorcros-? said lie would wait, but was told that nobody was in tho church, nnd that he could go in and see Father Ducoy, nnd coino out before anybody went in, without any doubt. He found tiie reverend father wailing and began n timorous conversation with him, being somc-whot somc-whot owed by his unaccustomed surroundings. sur-roundings. "Good evening, father." "Good wen ing, my son." "Father, I nm a reporter from the New York Tribune." "Very well; I absolve you from that." Indianapolis Star. ' |