The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-08-18
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thanks. Presently the new visitor came
up the stairs attended by the landlord.
"Its near Armagh, you tell me?" | over
heard him say.
"a matter of three miles the hither side,
returned the landlord.
"Youre sure of the name-Bonneford?"
GAS sure asI am of my own"
every good returned the Englishman,
shave ME fly at the door at seven; we'll
put two horses to the road two hours there
and two back; will you have a bed ready for
me at midnight if l Gomez"
'Wheniver you loike," said the host; and
the Englishman came bustling ina tall
sandy haired man of sixty perhaps full of
resitiveness, and of the condition [ should
guess, of moderately well-to-do farmer.
He wore a snuff colored coat, and over it a
Neutrality-suspicious. leathern CATERS, splashed
with mud, and broad-brimmed drab hat.
He thanked me for my civility in short,
sharp way, and after a very brief toilet dis
posed himself for the dinner which was now
smoking on the table.
And Mary" said he turning to the gaunt
landlady, ''please bring ME pint O sherry,
and let Boots clehn up my galoshes, and let
him have the fly at the door at seven to a
minute; and Mary
''Iistress FIaherty, SURF" with curtesy,
said the woman.
ooh, Ell. beg pardon Mistress Flaherty;
and will Mistress Flaherty see that the sheets
have good airing for me, against midnight
or observation-disclosures good woman ~
"The house never gives damp sheets, SUR. !"
cts a high feather these Irish maids wear
in their caps said he as the landlady disap-
peared.
We presently fell to discussion of the
mutton and to the relative merits OF the
Southdowns and of the little moor-fed sheep
one meets with in ireland, in which | found
he was thoroughly English in his tastes, as
in lis appearance. We talked Of the bog, OF
the potato disease, of the poor rates; an hour
passed thus, and finally we came back to
the weather and Christmas season-''not
Just the season. observed, chat an En-
glishman usually chooses to while away in a
damp inn"
"Quite right, y said he,as he went on COM
pounding a punch from few fragrant mete-
rails brought up from the tap; quite right
as you say, and damp ride on such night
as this,is worse than the inn and the punch.
This latter cheered him and invited more
personal chat than he yet INDUCED in
els it to Armagh you are going to night"
said
"Thereabout, said he, land Imay tell
YOU, now that we have tasted the punch to-
gether-your good eth, sir-that if find
the man Pm in search Of, and if he's the
man take him for, this will be the merri-
est Christmas eve I've passed in twenty
years time"
Indeed" said l, rather startled by GER
tain pathos in his tone which had not be-
fore recognized 'some old friend perhaps ~
''Not a bit Of it-not one bit; never saw
hin, in my life, The oldest thing in the
world"
This was said rather to himself than to
/ me, and he reIapsed into musing mood,
which did not feel at liberty for a time to
interrupt.
''Its not the first mystery that's perplex-
ed me today" said l, half laughingly, as
the stranger lifted his head again.
''Ah, indeed-and pray, if may be so
bold, what's the other?
Come to the window and perhaps can
show you said l. The December evenings
ia the North Of Irel&ud are terribly long -
Our own candles had been lighted since three
of the afternoon; and as | pulled aside the
curtain, the street lamps and shop fronts
were all cheerfully ablaze. Over the watch
makers, in the window where my chief OBJ
servaton Of the morning had been conferred
there was no lamp burning, but there was
rudy glow in the room, such as a well light
ed CRATE full Of Goals might throw out.
@Do you see? said |, ''over tue way
there's dog lying before the fre."
''Aye aye-I see"
land there's woman in the shadow by
the hearth"
/ .Quite right / make out her figure"
And there $ pair of children you see
how the freight roddens up their faces?"
Aye, aye, chubby rogues-God bless
me- / had such once. And that's the father
[ suppose from the way they lean on INN
and tug at his waistcoat
There's tho mystery" says !,
'Oho !"
Does he look like a murderer % said l.
"Bless my soul murderer What do you
mean?
I dropped the curtains, and when we had
. taken our places again before the fire, de-
| tailed TO him the incidents OF the morning
de seemed to enjoy immensely the oddlty
/, of the whole thing, and chiefly the assurance
of the gaunt old tlaheIty, who brought uE
? :, Murderer from the bottom OF the North Sea
to drive straight into town on Snch Il dreary
December day.
"But whose was this MURDER" says my
companion, with a sudden thoughtful check
to his hlarity.
'Dormont, was the name think"
; The man gave a sudden start. ''Bless
me! Ben Donnont began to suspect al
much Why do you know knew him like
brother in fact he rus my wifes brother
+ and lived away here in the North OF Ireland
ave. Ben Dormont ; he was murdered tru'
enough but its not our friend over yonde
that did it. There was story | know thai
some Young Belfast man killed him, anC
= thew tracked him to Cork but he, poor
: fellow. went down in--tho londonderry
| sure enough-the very ship-they're RICH
there. But the man who killed Dormon
was Pat Eagan, who died in lucy three year.
gone. Nv son you must know, is sergean
! in her Majesty forty third, and Pat was on
of his men-enlisted in Ingy. He fell sicl
2 of the fever there, and at last wanted prizes
and a magistrate, and made clean breas
of it. NV boy sent home copies of all the pa
pers if the Flaherty wants them to clea
Iup the name eff her drowned friend, she shall
have them"
must confess to strong feeling Of relic
at this revelation; for in spite Of myself
was beginning to feel warm interest in th
people over the way, and had been oppresse
with an uncomfortable sense of the Flaher
tvs earnestness, and other 'iligant rninory.
But there was another little episode con
nected with the story Of the murder, as tn
landlord had detailed it, which perhaps my
; English companion might throw light upon
. indeed. I had INV supicions, that he had pur
poseIy waived all allueion to H. p yI my Gu
riosity ovefbore for the tune al sense 0
a delieacy.
, "If remember rightly, said l. carelesslI
There was a young woman associated II
r some wav with this Donnont murders
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