The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-13
81 will not interfere" said Willie firmly,

81 will not interfere" said Willie firmly
" and"
Listen," said Richard, his voice trem
bling with suppressed rage if you d.
not, will take such vengeance on you, or
her, on him, on you all, that your hearts
shall shiver under it. Be wise, am q dan
gerOus enemy better have me for u friend
and l will be true friend and as fol-
Nellie, l will guard every hair of her
head" He looked with eager, flaming
eyes into Willie's calm face. "Answer
me-"
~ have answered you, Richard. Ellen
has made her choice. She loves Frank,
and am heartily glad of it. would rather
see her his wife, and poor, than the richest
lady in the land"
Richards face grew dark with rage
" Beware!" he said, between his closed
teeth "have Il care-do not drive me too
far"
~ do not fear you," answered the
other, quietly. {" Mans vengeance is under
Gods control. am doing as my conscience
bids me, and trust Ellen and myself to
Gods protection"
Z" Be it so," said Richard, taking up his
hat; "and when the hour of woe comes
upon you, remember you brought it on
yourself, and SO saying he rushed from the
room.
CHATTER Nv.
those calm and trustful ones which are not
easily disturbed. He said nothing to Ellen
of what had passed, not even when she told
him of the stormy scene she had had with
Richard few days after her engagement.
He had insisted she should break it off, ard
accept him in Franks stead; and treated
her declaration of affection for Frank with
such contempt, that Ellen, thoroughly
reused, had given him what she called ga
good setting down." since which time he
had not molested her, nor did he appear on
visits to his family were brief and rare, and
he never entered the O'Donnelps house.
Neither did he appear, like the hero of a
sensational novel, looming darkly in the
distance on the wedding-day The we'd
old whitewashed village chapel, where Ell
len and Frank had been baptised, and
made their First Communion. The we'd
ding-feast was gay and merry, and though
Margaret Murphy's heart strings were rent
when she parted from her child and COM
paniOn, her sorrow was o happy one, and
she felt that her hearts desire was fulfilled.
The newly Unmarried pair took up their
abode in Dublin, and seemed to enjoy as
fair share of happiness as often falls to
the lot of mortals. Willie was made
priest just in time to enable him to baptise
few years, various little brothers and Sis
tiers claimed the same Office from his hands.
He was stationed in Dublin, in the midst
of dense and poor population. His
church was not pretty one, with gothic
arches, and stained windows, and beautiful
ornaments; it had been roughly built, in
troublous times, and bore many marks of
age ; and it was so necessarily filed by
dense mass of poor, that it could never be
very clean. Here he patiently labored
among his people all day, and often with
the sick half the night. Here, though he
was little known and little thought of, he
did the work of an apostle, and lived the
life of saint. Ellen seldom saw him; his
church was too distant for her to frequent
it often sometimes she and Frank gave
themselves the treat of going to hear him
preach, and listened to one Of the short,
simple sermons, with little natural elo-
Quence, that he was wont to deliver-but q
sermon given with such carnestness, COM
ing so evidently from the heart, that it
went insensibly home to the souls of the
listeners and bore its fruit. Now and again
he gave himself an hours recreation, and
spent it with his sister and brother and
their children. And happy indeed were
the little ones as they climbed on his knee
and nestled on his breast, for he had that
great natural attraction for children which
they always instinctively understand, and
enjoy accordingly.
But he could seldom spare the time, and
almost the only trouble Ellen had was TO
see him, as she thought, wearing himself out.
He sat long hours in the close confessional,
listening to the sorrows and the sins of n
miserable crowd, generally squalid, dis
eased, and dirty, but with whom for flock
he was well contentcd.
She feared to see him cut off before his
time by hard work, but had she been able
to look into the future she would have
known that a sharper death was to be his
lot.
ITO be Continued