Don't Despair

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 attenti on 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."