The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-18
THE PRIEST HUNTER,
In Irish Tale of the Penal Times.
By NJ. ARcHDEAcoN, ESQ.
(Continued.)

tContinued)
Frank and his oomrade speedily reached the
castle, and were at once nsheSed into Sit
JOINS Vs. s sss fss person Rorke 81,
said the baronet, addressing Frank.
"Yaw, pynheer, Jams Schroeder OF sne good
Is And who is your smock-faced comrade :
He seems not adopted for seafaring-who are
You sirrah What is the fellow mouthing at
aYaw. mynheer, dat ish it. He bin vat you
cali Won doomb: he tell no tale, and the poor
tcyyil he never part Wit me, and ish as true as
de cornpash, long years-poor Diedr1ch Won
"Tongue ted say your Then SO much the
better. Has Rorke told You that wished to
have person conveyed TO the Contineht'
"Yaw, mynheer."
"Then what is Your demand for carrying a
girl to L'Oriept, st. Malice, or any other port in
She Northwest of France-at o word-eh "
Veil don, mynheer, would say Won two
hoondhred marks for cause must put mein
good schip out of her courses"
Say ten pounds sterling, and II sha. a DC
be prepared, you shall receive your freight
from myself and Mr.. Ffolliot, with directions"
"Donner and Bitten, fish Won too shmall
mynheer."
1'Tis too much you will retire now and re-
member the eve after tomorrow. But stay n
moment. 1t may occur even to your Dutch IN.
tellect that you have now an important secret
of mine: but" he added in a stern whisper,
"the slightest inquiry will convince you that
nobody can betray-hns betrayed Sir John In
gram with impunity, else might you wonder
Should entrust an unknown person in such an
affair You could gain only peril-pcrhaps
destruction-by any attempt at treachery For
i, YOUR own sake, then, be secret and punctual,
q and dread nothing-good night"
eBut, Hasel, vii You not git MS Won mother
feefty marks-dat ish fifteen pounds, myn-
hesr h. ,vora is never altered and our confer
ence has been long enongh." said the baronet
almost fiercely. Be punctual."
Frank and his companion now quilted the
CASTLE but without any marks OF precipitancy;
and it was not until they had left it some hun
bred yards behind them that Frank said in a
whisper, "LWe have just made good tack to
ave moor Ellen; aud, though was afraid you
would miss channel and run aground, you
minded the signal well, Bessy"-for Bessy it
was, Who though she had quilted her fathers
house with Frank, through fear of what the
morrow should bring, yet resisted all his per.
suasjons to proceed to the coast with him until
she should have ascertained how things were
really circumstapced at the cottage. Thither
they were accordingly proceeding when they
Fortunately encountered Rorke; Frank having
little or no fears about venturing SO near the
scene of the .last nights attack, as he had been
anyrized that it was in another direction the
search was just then being made after the at
tackers. =,
peous Girl, "that imprudent as KNEW it might
have been to speak, had great difficulty to
curb myself from proclaiming that was the
daughter of q loyal Protestant, and that, TOT all
II,
born lady, without her own consent"
"Its well you did shorten sail, however,
Bessy. But what are we to do next T. go,
"Wil you not give warning to your cousin r
al think, on consideration, Bessy, 1T is bet
tet to receive her as a freight from the tyrant
himself, as he proposed; for fear myself ana
Door Ellen would have but little chance of
Drawing his power successfully, as, you see, he
is himself well aware of-particularly as l am
positive that even Ffolliot could scarcely, by
any feasibility, have a suspicion of me in my
present trim, and especially as it is at night
am to meet them"
.arved: and they forthwith resumed their
route, Frank beguiling the way by detailing
his f1ture plans and projects in another land
stsA;ne his Intentions of Immediately abandon.
ing his present course of life, and his certainty
of obtaining q place of emolument and perma-
hence on their arrival IN Hoiland'
CHAPTER xxm
While the interyieUs lust recorded were TAX
ing place in Ingram castle, other and very diff