The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-31
unRHuo srAR AND CATHOLIC AakHuAs
NFW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. NAY 81 isss.
From tho Catholic World.l
NELLIE NETTERV1bLE;
"a.
ONE OF THE TRANsPLANTED.
cuAFfRR VII.

IN trnth. a calm {sgIis5 and courage, not
often the heritage III petted girlhood, IN
order to bear up successfully against lts
difficulties. Happily for herself, the brave
mon degree, and the trials and troubles OF
the last few months had ripened these fac
Mites into almost unnatural maturity. The
tale she had Just told to Major Hewitson
was free of the smallest attempt at exag-
geration, being, in fact, rather under than
over tho measure OF inc trutn. 0su NoS
terville in common with many another I'M
fortunate gentleman of the English Pale,
had been kept dancing attendance on the
commissioners at LOughrea until both hope
aud money failed him. The absence Of
homo comforts told heavily upon a frame
Just at the moment when he could least bear
up againstit, he was attacked by the plague,
which at that very time was making most
Impartial havoc among the native 1r1sh ana
their foes Thanks to an iron constltuno9'
he recovered, but he rose from his SICK pea,
If not absolutely child in mind, yet rs
utterly incapable of aiding Nellie by advice,
or Of steering his own way unassisseu
through the troubled waters on which his
ill fate had cast him, as if he had been IN
very deed an infant. His servant was al
ready dead, therefore the whole response
bility of their future movements devO!ved
upon his granddaughter. She proved her
SELF, fortunately, not altogether unequal to
the occasion, never losing sight, for mo-
ment, of the purpose which had brought
her to Loughrea, and tormenting the COM
missioners until, less moved by her youth
and helplessness than by desire to rid
themselves of her troublesome importun1-
ties, they gave her the certificate which she
had shown to Major Hewitson, and which,
as he had instantly perceived, was rendered
worse than useless to it's pOssessor by the
fact of it's being merely a temporary ar
o1ikn nf Latin and
law language, Nellie had, naturally eno"gh,
supposed it to be a permanent appolntment;
and, selling their horses, and every article
If value in her possession, In order TO pay
the debts contracted at Loughrea, she had
made the rest of the journey on foot, lead
lu9, soothing, and encouraging the old man
rs If fhe had been a child, and buoylng up
his courage and her own by fanciful de- |
xcriptions Of that home in the far west, |
where she trusted his last days might be |
passed in peace. She had tried to deceive
ksm she never attempted to deceive herself
ss to the nature of their future prospects;
yet unpleasant as her anticipations had
Soan, they were SO much more agreeable
than the terrible realities upon which she
hid gust stumbled, that she felt for few
moments as she sat there alone among the
hills as if the very gates of an earthly Par
Ndise had been closed against her. But it
was no moment for the Indulgence OF such
natural regrets. She looked at her grand |
father. and felt that his life was in her
bands. She remembered, too, her promise |
tn her mother to be son as we'll as daughter
to his age and sternly and tearlessly, for
tears were too weak an expression for such
,iesolation as she was feeling then, she set
herself to consider what her next move
aught To he. Food and shelter for the old
ihan-lani it needed not another glance at
his pale face to tell her how much both were
needed.) food and shelter-these must be
sser frSt ,you11 hn Irr1,
after they had been secured to decide as to
the feasibility of a return journey to Lough-
rea. She rose, and drawing her hood,
Hhich, in her struggle with Major Hewitson,
had fallen back upon her shoulders, once
more over her head, she took her grand
silently down the path pointed out to her
by Henrietta. 1t had originally been n
sheep-path, and proved far less difficult
sban she had expected, winding gradually
r"und the hills until it reached II sort of
creek. or estuary, formed by the inrushing,
for couple of miles, of the waters from
s4s,e bay beyond. 1t was a lonely, but Il
sO'ely >pot. and Nellie's heart beat more
SalIEty as she paused to listen to the-seft
*osliinss OF the waters in their inland bed,
stns. to feel the fresh breeze which they
brought 4rom the ocean PLAYING on her
&i''tted brow. There We're no visible signs
tte;,r her of that human habitaton of which
Mayor Hewitson's daughter had SD conf
ssentiy spoken; hut at last, after having
searched the landscape steadily in all di-
sSe'Sions, SHE thought she saw something
tiSe blue curl of smoke rising out of a sort
"f mound, which, at first sight seemed
neither more nor less than "A cairn of nm
snally large dimensions, nearly hidden by
Siumps of gorse and heather at least six
feet high. and bushy and luxuriant in nro-
portion. On nearer inspection, however. il
proved to be a hut, such u hut as even to
this day may be sometimes seen in the
widest parts of the wild west, rounded at
the gables, built of rough stones, rudely
vet sOlidly put together, and with n roof
tafd on of fern and shingle, carefully Sc
zared from the violence of the western
winds by bands of twisted straw A hole
in this roof stood proxy both for window
and for chimney. and the lnnrwnr W. =