The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-19


foiled in two recent captures, the party in
either case having turned out to be neither
priest nor friaf.
The parcel was delivered, and had been
scarcely paid for by the mistress of the
the rere door, after having clambered over
some walls dividing the adjacent pre-
misses.
"Father Davy, )" he said, in a low voice,
but emphatically, after he had seen that
the outer doors, as we'll as the door and win
dow of the apartment they were in, were
closed. The carrier of the parcel started
on hearing the name he had thought quite
unknown in the town.
"You SEQ know YOU" continued Char
ley (; am of the Rorkes of Castle Rorke,
and of course remember you since boy hood.
You acted very foolhardily in venturing,
under any disguise, into the same place
picions, you see, you at once reused, though
I'm convinced he doesn't know you, but
merely suspects you to be priest or q
friar. suppose you came in consequence
of some information of your uncle having
landed on our coast"
through the family you come from, though
know you are not now-openly at least
of our creed, will not affect any disguise
with you. 1 am friar Bourke of Glare
Galway, and I have ventured on the ex-
pertinent Il now find SO hazardous) of COM
ing here in consequence of information re-
ceived of my uncle having landed on part
of your coast.p
'Then you need proceed no further in this
direction, as met your uncle and Frank
Lynch just after their landing, and they
were both about to proceed inland. Bal
lintubber, should imagine, would be your
hkeliest place to find, or hear of Father
Bernard and the sooner you are of this
dangerous ground the better-let as see if
you are sWEschedn the guager advanced
from the rere room, into which he had led
the friar, to one with front aspect; and
in an instant, with low exclamation,
beckoned the priest to the door. You see
there is a sharp look out after you" he con-
tinued, pointing to the figure of Shawn
moving on the opposite side of the street.
"But, my dear" whispered Mrs. Rorke,
you know your sister BOurke has had q
daughter last night, and has strong wish
to have her baptized in the old way, though
I argued with her on the danger it might
subject her to; and might it not be the
safest way for her nameeake to remain at
the lodge till night, when her wish might
be gratifed, particularly as she is in so
81 believe you are right, Celia, if we
the way-here Lacky."
A shOeless familiar, with unwashed but
highly comic cOuntenance made his ap-
pearance-"here's hog, Lacky. Treat
that ruffian, Mullowny, and keep him en-
gagged for half an hour with one Of your
stories. He's never proof against the temp
tation Of whiskey."
"Och, be the powers o. Moll Kelly-axin'
| yer honOr's pardon for the name, SEEM that
| the Kelly's and the ROrkes is three akin
| for wan taisther O. the money I'll make the
ruffian b'lieve that the Pope himself is
| l.. L.. - L.,
In pursuance of this plan, Lacky was in
q moment by the side of Shawn, muttering
threats against his master for some imagin-
airy ill treatment; and they both disappear
ed from the street instantly after.
| On perceiving their disappearances,Ro rke,
after inducing the friar to swallow some
refresbment, hurriedly led~him through
plots and gardens, in the shelter of hedges,
till they reached the lodge, which was sit
| uated just beyond the extremity OF the
southern suburb of the town. Here Father
Davy was welcomed with Almost cordial
| reception, and after having added the new
born babe to the Christian fold, was pre-
| vailed on, by the earnest entreaties of the
mother, to remain until the second ensu-
ing day, which was to be the Sabbath, in
! order to celebrate macs in an old granary
to the rere of the lodge.
| 1t is beautiful arrangement in our ma
| ture for the preservation of ancient faiths,
|
are prosecuted for our creed, the more ar
IDENTIFY do we cling to it, else, perhaps, in
many locality, had NO -hallowed wor-
| ship been still in existence. 1t has been
said that a man never loves q woman with
all the fervor Of his nature, until he has
undergone the ordeal of persecution for her
sake. 1t is so with religion. The purest
the most unworldly, and the deepest seated
worship, is that offered up at a prosecuted
shrine, as the strongest and most enduring
affection is eDgendered for her, through
whom and with whom, We suffer reproach
and wrong.
There is, besides, kind of fascination
in the suffering for conscience sake; for,
the sympathy of our fellow men sheds u
halo wing light, that cheers and guides ue
among every wrong aud injury; aud, per-
haps we are never linked together by such
adanantiDe chains, as when undergoing q
community of persecution, as the survivors
/ of routed field are knit together by the
very losses they have sustained.
To b. COoslpn~d)
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