The story takes shape in letters to the Vatican under the name of Father Damien, concerning supposed miracles at Little No Horse.

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Agnes fetches up on a river bank beside the corpse of Father Damien Modeste, a priest drowned on his way to an Ojibwe mission.

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The parishioners' feuding is so hard to follow that readers may give up before the moving description of what proves to be Father Damien's own moral trial.

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She takes Father Damien's cassock and his name and, thus disguised, serves as priest and confessor to the Little No Horse reservation until her (that is his?) death.

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