Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-12-30

When to morrow, and tomorrow, and q
week passed, and they were still putting
her off, terrible dread took possession Of
her. The doctor seeing this, whispered tc
the nurse that if she did not rest better thai
night. the truth should be broken to her
But having heard that the children in the
workhouse were all marched out daily at Q
certain hour for air, and exercise. Sally
stole from the fever hospital. and hid her
self in clump of evergreens by which the
children were to pass. She crouched dowr
upon her knees and elbows. watching and
listening intently. They are comingl They
pass within few feet of the evergreensl- :
Her very breathing is suspended. Not Q
face in that long line of pauper boys es
copes her scrutiny. But Corney is not
there, nor Tommy, nor Mickey. Sally Ca
vanagh feels an almost irrepressible im-
pulse to scream aloud: but by a strong ef.
fort she resists it, and it passes away in q
shudder. She rests her forehead-it is
burning upon the damp clay under the
evergreens, and remains motionless. she
knows not how long. She Is reused by the
plodding tread of the pauper boys on their
return She watches them again, but now
uOt duAiouSif' pue Win uun unSohseAouo
gaze.
Again she is reused. A piercing light
burns in her dark eyes, and her nostrils
quiver The pauper girls are coming now.
She raises herself upon her her hands as if
she were about to spring for ward. 1t is
it is poor Norah's yellow haii! She does
spring forward. She seized the child by
the shoulders. and, holding her at arms
length stares into face that never wore a
smile: no. never-since the day she was
born. But it Is not poor Norah, and Sally
Cavanagh appears turned into stone as the
procession of pauper girls moves past.
But is il not a sight to make one shud-
der? Is there not something horrible in
the bare idea of many hundreds of chill
dren's faces without one smile among them?
Yet we assure the reader We have seen this
unnatural sight.
Another thought smote upon the heart
OF Sally Cavanagh, and she was reused
again.
She sees two men placing collins upon a
car. There is a child's coffin among them !;
and as the men stoop to lift it from the
ground they are pushed violently aside
She tears OF the lid, and the bright rays
Of the setting sun fall upon the gbastly
corpse. BIT it is not her child. The priest,
who was coming from the hospital apr proach-
ed and spoke soothingly to the poor dis
tracted mother
Where are they 2" she asked.
Elm Heaven-witn the saints in Heavez,"
replied the priest.
.Norah-an' Corney-and Tommy and
Nickey?-and the youngest little boy?-are
they all dead?'
'Yes; they're all dead"
cred look.
"And buried-and gone to better
world, said the priest
She looked distractedly about her, till
her eyes rested on q blue mountain, ten
miles away. She bent a a long piercing
gaze apon the mountain. And then utter
ing wild shrek that rang through every
corner of the ''palace of poverty" and
made the good priest turn pale. the broken
hearted woman rushed through the gate
her hands stretched out towards the noun
tain.
Sally Cavanagh was q maniac.
The demented mother now wanders up
and down the neighborhood returning al
ways at night to an old burying ground,
where side by side she has raised five little
mounds, the ''untenanted graves In her
disturbed imagination she fancies her chill
dren ara there, and that under the tender
starlight the youngest comes down and
nestles in her bosom. Meanwhile the hus-
band returns from America and is taken
by his friend, Brian Purcell, to the bury
ing-ground. Connor Shea stands little
apart, concealed by wall. while Brian goes
up to Sally, who has promised to tell him
on this occasion a secret
"Well, every night when the stars do be
shinin'-but you won't tell, or they might
take himfrom me?"
'.No, Sally, win not tell"
She placed her hand upon his shoulder,
and with her mouth close to his ear while
child-like smile lighted up her face, whis-
pered: He comes down when the stars
do be shinin'. and have him in my arms
all the night"
DOWN.
"Ah. you wouldn't guess! Well I'll tell
you, the youngest of all-poor Willie With
the blue eyes An have him here all
night-here. she repeated. pressing both
her hands against her bosom.
Mr., Brian Purcell was almost affected to
tears.
"Here is Norah outside, said she, kneel-
ing down and laying her hand on one of
the mounds. An sure you'd aisy know
Corney. for he was nearly as tall as Norsh.
An any one'd know the little one entirely.
But who on'y myself could guess these
two?" She looked up at Brian as if expect
ing reply "No," she contained, you'd
never be able to guess; but IN tell YOU
This is Tom-the little fat bruckish; and
this is Mickey. But will nobody tell me
where is Neddy, poor Connor's own brave
boy?"
At this moment the wicked landlord,
Grindem, appears on the scene, with Eve
consteblts, anda man with a shovel and
spade whom he has brought to level tie
-'untenanted graves" at the same time that
the eonstabies are to arrest Sally. The
poor lunatic feebly resists the arrest, and
clutches at the bride rein of Grindem's
horse. The wretch cuts her across the face
with his horsewhip, and just at the instant
that Connor Shea is about to send q bullet
through his brain, the horse rears up and
throws Grindem, breaking his neck against
the wall. Connor then rushes to his wife's
rescue.
'Oh, save me--says meT she cried, in
an imploring voice.
"fu save you; yes, I'll save you. But
oh! Sally, don't you know me?"
He comes down every night, when the
stars do be shinin'." she whispered, land
mos they went to take meaway."
''Oh! Sally, look up-look up and say
you know me-" he sobbed. And as be
raised her face from his bosom, he kissed
her wan cheek passionately.
They're dead" she murmured, ''all
dead. Poor Norah, an Corney, an Tom.
my, an Mickey, and little Willie with the
blue eyss-an' all"
"But don't you remember me, Sally
your own husband? Thry, Sally and re-
member ould tlmesf'
\ But there was no meaning in her smile.
my Godi my God!' cried the distract.
ed man. what did ever do to deserve
this? Sure was mad while ago, when
thought TO take his life. 0. Heavenly Faith.
eri restore her sinses, an thought of re-
venge Ill never let enther my heart again1
Holy Mary, Mother of God, intsrcede fol
her, /" he exclaimed aloud In q voice of tho
most intense entreaty.
"LOok ct me again. Sally--A gradh gsa
mo croidhes"