Marie and Karl's Miraculous Reunion

Marie, a Latter-day Saint living in America, had been separated from her husband Karl for two years. Karl unexpectedly traveled to America in steerage. Through a series of events involving a kind young woman named Beatrice, Marie and Karl were reunited, with Beatrice initially mistaking Karl for a tramp, then realizing the divine providence of their reunion.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 19 no. 1 (January 1908), pages 36-37):

Marie had been in America two years, and all that time she had heard nothing of Karl. She had written to his home in the old country, but the letters had been returned. She had prayed for him, and she had worked for him, and she had waited for him. And now he had come. He had come in the steerage of a great ship, with no money, and no knowledge of the language, and no address of his wife. He had wandered about the streets of the city, hungry and cold, until he had found the house of Mr. Fred Barras, where Marie was employed. He had been directed to the kitchen door, and there he had met Beatrice. Beatrice, who was busy with her work, and who was not accustomed to seeing tramps at the back door, had been a little impatient. She had told him to go away, and had even threatened to call the police. But Karl had not gone. He had stood there, with his hat in his hand, and his eyes full of tears, and he had said, in his broken English, 'I look for my wife, Marie.' Beatrice had looked at him, and she had seen the look of suffering in his face, and her heart had softened. She had asked him to come in, and she had given him something to eat. Then she had gone to find Marie. She paused to give another wistful look down the road. Then her dress caught in the door. When she entered the kitchen a moment later, her tramp and Marie were crying in each other’s arms. 'Oh, look! It ish mein Karl,' sobbed Marie, rapturously. 'And I almost sent him away,' gasped Beatrice. 'But not quite,' said Marie. 'Se ish goot,' she explained to Karl, who nodded comprehendingly while he dried his eyes.