The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-04-26
SOMEBODY'S MISTAKE.
From Dickens All the Year Round. I

| L. AoAh biOht uo All int uuT hUuuu.
In the old town of Limerick are many fine
houses, built when it was thought that the
town would stretch out by Lord Clare in
stead Of going as it did There is Back
Clare street, built of handsome private
houses, which were afterwards let and sub
let cheap to lodgers--many of the lower
class of trades people 1t was in one of
these houses that reduced gentlewoman--
Miss Sally Carmody-lived, in or about the
year 1861. There was q deal of French
money sent over in these times, and some,
it is thought, appropriated it to their own
purposes.
Frank Arthur ever, when he was build
ing Arthur's Quay, was accused of having
got some. | am quite sure this is untrue;
but the story was believed, because, you see
in those days it was thought such an i'm.
pudent thing for Catholic to built a whole
quay! Three times, they say, he was on
the point of being hanged ; but the Earl
Of Limerick saved him. However this
might be, Frank Arthur being considered
| Catholic, was suspected and not himself
alone, but all who were known to be con-
nected with him. Arthur's wife was better
born than himself, and poor Miss Sally Car
mody was a cousin Of hers and we'll known
as such. So she, good old lady, was under
| suspicion also.
Miss Sally being, as | said, reduced, was
obliged to take in needle work to support
herself. She was very skillful at her needle
and numbers Of fine ladies used TO mount
the stairs to her lodgings to intrust her with
work they were particular about. One
would think there could lie nothing very
dangerous in this poor gentlewoman. Still,
being related to Arthurs wife, she was
watched, and she knew it. Above all she
| lived in constant dead Of fellow lodger
| floor, Immediately below her, This wom-
an, who followed the calling of clear
starcher, was an acrid, close, uncommuni-
cative little body-very industrious, but
very odd in her ways. She vas -whatthey
called "a bitter Protestant - consequently
she was employed by all the Protestant la
dies of Limerick, and was, moreover, q
| weekly pensioner of some religious society
By Miss Sally, the little Protestant clear
starcher was looked upon as a spy, and
dreaded and avoided accordingly
One day hansome carriage stopped at
the door, and lady of modest appearance
having inquired for Miss Sally, alighted
and assembled the stairs to her room. She
had some very fine work with her, and con-
corning this she had 9 hundred instructions
to give. Miss Sally remembered afterwards,
that while she was talking about the workthe
lad Us eyes kept glaucing here and there
rather curiously. But as this was by no
means unusa in her fine lady visitors, it
caused her no uneasiness at the time Her
customer at last departed, and Miss Sally
resumed her occupation, suspended during
the rather tedious directions to which she
had to hearken.
The visitors sharp eyes, however, had
not gone a-prylng IN vain. Inside the front
room there was, as | have often seen in
those old houses, little room or closet,
without any window, only lighted by means
ola class door connecting it with the apart
mcnts without. 1t came out subsequently
that the fine lady spy had been the shadows
of man inside. In less than half an hour
the whole street was filled with soldiers,
aud up to miss Sallys room they came to
secure their prisoner. They knew he had
not time to escape they also knew that
from the closet there was no second outlet;
so, when they were in the room without
they were sure he was trapped.
Into the closet, then they thronged, Cen
eral Duff at their head. But the room was
apparently empty. 1t was without furni-
ture, save mattress, chair and a table,
on which were the remains of a meal. In
one corner was little heap of FIRE wood,
but net large enough to conceal a man.
For moment the soldiers was taken aback
next moment they were treasured.
There was bricked-up fire place in the
room and round it they all gathered. At
that time there was tax called hearth mon
ey, and people used to build a sort of wall
of brick saround fire place, that the in
spector might see when he came that they
made use of it, Ay, and maybe when he d
turn his back the bricks would be taken
down until the time for next visit How
ever, as luck would have it, Miss Sally had
really no use for this fire place; suppose
it was as much as she could do, poor lady,
to keep up the fire in the front room.
And it so happened that the bricks were
well and firmly built, and even plastered
!, over, and they reached to within couple
of feet of the ceiling There was just room
for man inside, and down there, as the
soldiers guessed, poor fugitive had dropped
!, He had only few minutes notice of their
!, coming, and catching up a Ratchet that was
in the corner with the fire wood, he had
. just time to Chamber up and gain his tenn
, poIary pace of refuge when they broke in.
With throbbing heart he listened to
oaths. He heard them asking if it would
not be best to shoot down upon him, and
kill him in his lair. But general Duff
bawled out, ''No, no not for hundred
thousand pounds He must be taken
alive He Is ours p They then set to
and worked hotly and with the knocking
and hammeripg, and crushing shouting.
there was such an uproar as was never
heard before in poor Miss Sally Carmody' q
I lodgings. The bricks being solidly built
, and plastered, it was not so easy as they
had anticipated to tear them away. And
when at last they did eject their purpose,
their supposed prisoner had again banked
them-how was plainly to be seen.
While they were upshooting the bricks
: that screened him from them, he seeing or
rather feeling, that there was no hearth