The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-11

may" the girls OF tho to wnlends of RathCaSh,
temptible TURNOUT npon the New Years day
after Tom Murdoch had retnrne cd from Armagh.
The boys, too, were equally grand, according
70 shs,5 Of Issss sGtTy
boots; while the well-formed fellows, with
plump calves and fine ankles, turned ont in
ehefr new corderoy breeches, wooden stockings
lower proportions. % in most cases the coats
and Yeats were much of the same make, though
perhaps different in color and material, while
the weil-brushed !" Caroline hat was common
to all.
Conspicuous among the girls in the district
in which our story sojourns, were, o matter
OF course, Winny Cayana and Kate Muivey,
with some others of their neighbors who have
not been mon toned, and who need not be- i.
Winny, since the little episode respecting
her refusal of Tom Murdoch, and his subse-
quent departure, had led o very quiet, medita-
tive life She could not help remarking to her.
self, however, that abe had somehow or other
become still moro intimate with Kate Mulvey
than che had used to be; but for this che
could cot account--though. perhaps the read.
ipta,v one %. Iad ha been upon terms o
there, when time would permit, and sat for
half an hour, or sometimes an hour, chatting,
which was always reciprocated by Kate,
whose time rs more on her own hands. In
what then consisted the increase of intimacy
can hardly be-said. Perhaps 1T merely existed
In Winny's own wish that it should be so, and
GQ0 1loG Gnag one anu Inc Otner, on Sucn OCca-
sions, now always threw n cloak round her
shoulders aud accompanied her friend piece
of the way home. Sometimes when the day
was tempting. decided walk would be pro-
posed, and then the bonnet was added to the
cloak. What formed the burden of their con-
versation in these chats, which to a close OBJ
server might be said latterly to have assumed
a confidential appearance, must be SO evident
be observed on the subject. To say the least,
came in for o share of it, and,
as matter of almost necessity, Tom Murdoch
was not altogether left out.
Kate Mufvey, after the eclaircissemeH! with
Winny, believed she could do her friend some
good, without doing herself any harm. q prin-
eiple on which alone most people will act.
With viii this view she took an early oppor-
suit of the interview between herself and
Winny, and although she did it in q very cas-
ual, and at the same time o very clever man
ner, she began to fear that far as er friends
case was concerned, she had done more harm
than good. The fact of Tom Murdock's pro-
Posal and rejection subsequent to the inter
view adverted to, had not become public
amongst the neighbors; and before Wlnny
had left his fat hers house to seek EN- ployment
in the north. 1t Is not unlikely that he was
TEMPTED to this step by something which had
and Tom Murdock, although the whole cat had
not yet got out of the bag.
Hitherto poor Emon's heart had been kent |
pretty whole, through what he considered
belief that Winny Cayana. al |
most as matter of course, must prefer her |
4 andsome, rich neighbor, to q struggling Ia |
boring man like him. Tom he knew she saw |
almost every day, while at best she only saw
him for O few MINT ties on Sundays after chap
u. Enron knew the meaning of the word |
,ropinquity very well, and he knew as well
he danger of it. He knew, too, that if there
we're no such odds against him, he could
caroely dare aspire to the hand of the rich
actress of Rathcash. He knew the disposition
If old Ned Cavana too we'll to believe that he
would ever consent to a poor devil" like him
o thoroughly that all these things were
gainst him, that he had hitherto successfully
rushed every rising hope within his breast.
le had schoeied himself to look upon o match
matter so natural, that it would be nothing
'ss than madness to endeavor to counterfeit it.
What Kate Mulvey, however, had "let slip" had
reused q sIumbering angel in his soul He
as not wrong, then, after all, in q secret be- I
OF that this girl did not Ike Tom Murdoch
ver-much. Upon what he had founded that 6
elief he could no more have explained-even I
himseif-than he could have dragged the
con down from heaven; but he did believe {
(; he even combatted it as q fatal deusiop I
I'd yet it was true. But how did this mend {
ghtest degree, except so far as that the man l
most dreaded, and had most reason to
cad, was no longer an acknowledged rival to |
8 heart. Hopes he still had none. l
But Emon-n -knock was now i'll commOtiou.
le angel was awake, and his heart tremLled Y
q possibility which despair had hitherto :
dden frem his thoughts.
For some time past he had not only not 5
oided q casual meeting with Winny, but de-
,hted in them with q safe, if not altogether y
happy, Indifference. He looked upon her as '
most betrothed to Tom Murdoch circum- 4
snces and reports were SO dovetailed into t.
o another, and so like the truth. 7
there was really no difference in +
nix between him and Winpy, except what
+ fathers well-earned wealth justified the 8
sumption of, his position as IL daily laborer c
pit him aloof from an intimacy of which Z
ose in circumstances more like her own could
asst and poor Emon felt that it was q mat Y
r for boast. Thus had he hitherto refrained y
>m attempting to " WOO that bright particu- l
star" and his heart was comparatively
fe. But now-ay-no,r-what was he to do
Fly, fly !" said he; l." I'll go seek for employ o
,nt in the north To America, India, Aus o
slia- anywhere! Kate Mulvey may have j
SAINT it in kindness but it would have been
IRE kind to have let me alone. This horrible
owledge of that fact will break my
art.r ,
And Enron knock did fly. Bat it was no use u
ere were many reasons quite unconuected is
tn Winny Cavauu which rendered I. more y.
seiy return than he had intended unavoiJ-
lie. A stranger beyond the precincts of his &C
N parish, he found it impossible 10 procure II