The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-11
From the Catholic World
ALL-IIALLOW EVE ;
OR, THE TEST OF FtTUR1TY.
(Continued.)
CHAPTER XVII.

The most part of ready cash, whateve
the snm may have been, which Tom had re
oeived ut the bank, having been, As he callet
~, swsiGwed up ny them cormorante, the at
auce in HIS pocket. He was determined, there
fore, to live quietly for some time at his auntt
upon "the lashins and LAWNS" taking her ad
vice, and arranging with her his plan OF opera
'Sions upon bis return to Rathcashmore. And
his cunts advice, in prudent and worldly
point OF Wow, was not to be controverted II
anything could tend toward the attainment OF
his object; that was the question.
nc was impossible, however, that Tom could
rest altogether satisfied with the company OF
bis aunt and her husband, and three or fonr
age; particularly rs the eldest of his cousins
was long-necked boy with big, stuck.
cars. who worked in his fathers shop instead
OF graceful girl with dark hair and fine eyes
whose domestic duties must keep her in the
mouse as her mothers assistant, or perhaps
9nabIe her when she could be spared to guide
MN through the principal parts of the town,
of which he would have feigned the most
profound ignorance. But the eldest child
gust past seventeen, as we have seem han
pened to be boy, not GIRL and Tom did NOT
consider this the best arrangement that could
be wished. In consequence, he sometimes
spent an evening from home, with owe or other.
or perhaps with all the congeuial spirits with
whom, as adelcgatc-for the truth may be con-
t SSsseaIrom another county, he could claim
was NOS on Official business in Armagh; and
whatever intercourse took place between them
was OF purely social nature.
ToHa was not altogether such n maurais sy;rt
as perhaps the reader has set him down in his
own mind to be, from the enuendos which
nave thrown out respecting him, as we'll as the
act9ai portions OF his character which have
made themselves manifest. 1t must be con- |
tessed-nay, believe it HAS been admitted not |
many lines a6ove-that be was q Ribbonman |
aud although that includes all that is murder,
Gus and wicked, when q necessity ariaea. let in |
6uCl
may not be altogether void of certain good |
points 10 his character. 1t is the friShtfni OBJ
!. Estion which ho labors under that makes q |
Nutatn OF him, should circumstances require
ne AID OF his iniquity. Apart from this and |
from what Is termed an Rgrariarl grievance N
Elooonman may not DO n bad family man, al |
Lodge" Is i'll calculated to nourish his donles- |
tic sympathies.
Tom had now been upward of n month en- |
Dying the hospitality of his aunt; and not |
that she had done all in her |
power 10 eateTtain him, and snake rnuchn of /
aim, he was beginning to tire Of the eternal |
smoke and flags, and stacks of Chimneys, which |
we're always tho same to the eye: no bright |
blast of SUM-" no sudden dark cloud made
any difference in them there they were, III |
WAYS tho same dark color, matter what |
5Isnt shone; upon thenl. No wonder, then, |
: ou, Glntuock began once more TO long for the |
Iesh oieeze that blew about the wild hills of |
aSthS~-~o mure, the green field of his fathers |
LaLn'I an" me purple heather of Slieve-dhu |
side. ~ NeA
- ABSENCE too had done more really to touch
hom'S AeHrt With respect to Winuy Cayan, than
20 wean him from her. He had been Introduce
d'"-throuSh his aunt's assistance, to several
IL What be called illisant iuc girls, niecos of
. .o' "'S"'hHS and others, and his heart con-
,sstH 'lAt none Of them were a patch" upon
imny H-va"n, after all. He thus became
lllSet\, aud began to speak OF returning home.
~ course tho aunt opposed her hospitality TO
lIen =" sep ior the ptesent Mt least: Just as
re were beginning To euJoy you, Tom ayic,n