The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-06
mentiug counsellor, old Bob By, whose
experience in this instance was worse than

mentiug counsellor, old Bob By, whose
useless.
The reader need hardly follow on to the re-
suit Tom Murdock was convicted and SEN
fenced to death; and ere three weeks had
elapsed he had paid the penalty of an u1gov
er nnn .b temper and revengeful disposition
Poor Winny had pleaded hard with the coun-
sci for the crown, and even with the attorney
general himself-who prosecuted. in person.
guilty to the abduction, and be sentenced to
transportation for life. But the attorney
general, who had all the informations by heart,
said that the animus had been manifest all
through, from even prior to the hurling-match,
which was alluded to by the prisoner himself
| as he fired the shot, and that he would most
her heart full of plans of peace and charity,
was obliged to forge the first link in a chain
Old Ned and Winny, accompanied by faith
full Bu1ly-dhu, had returned to B, where
the old man read and loitered about, watching
every figure which approached, hoping to see
charity, dressed in her black hood and cape.
Accompanied by Bully-dhu, he picked up
| them in his memory, to amuse Winny in the
evenings, in return for her descriptions of this
or that case of distress which she had re-
| unlike tragedy and farce.
| A sufficient time had now elapsed, not only
| for the deeds to have been perfected, but for
the provisions which they set forth to have
been carried out. Pat Lennon had already re-
moved to the comfortable cottage upon the
snug little farm which had been purchased for
him by Winny, and the "annuity" she had set
tied upon him was bearing interest in the
saviugs-bank at G. o. S.
Phil McDermott was one of the best to do
men in that side of the country and his wife
(if you can guess who she was) was the incest
and handsomest woman (now that Winny was
gomez that you'd meet with in the congrega-
ton of the three chapels within four miles of
transferred-head, body and bones-to the es-
Enlistment, where be excelled himself in
everything which was good and useful and
tms after him in the forge fled up bright and
nice, and if he does not sorely belle his abili-
ties and aptitude, he will one day become
"whitesmith" of no mean reputation.
| Biddy Murtagh was to have gone as cook
and thorough servant to Mrs. McDermott, but
the hundred pounds which had been lodged to
her credit in the bank soon smoothed the way
| between her and Denis Murrican, q Shanvilla
| boy, You will guess-who induced her to be-
come cook, but not thorough servant, hope,
to himself; so Kate McDsrmott.how strange
it seems not to write "Kate Mulvey was
obliged to get somebody else
| Poor Winny, blighted in her own hopes of
this worlds happiness, had turned her thoughts
seen her plans for the happiness of those she
loved carried out to o success almost beyond
her hopes. Her poor old father, getting whittier
| and whittier as the years rolled on, attained q
ripe and good old age, blessed in the fond
society of the only being whom he loved on
earth. Winny herself found too large field
for individual charity and good to think of
Joining any society, however estimable, during
her fathers lifetime, and was emphatically the
| Sister of Charity in the singular number.
But poor old Ned has long since passed away
from this scene of earthly cares and sleeps in
peace in his own chapel-yard, between t,co
tombs Long as the journey was, Wnny had
the courage and selfcontrol to come with her
| fathers bier, and see his coffin laid beside that
of him who had been SO rudely snatched away,
| and whom she had devotedly loved. Poor
BuIly-dhu was ut the funeral, and gazed into
the fresh-made grave in silent, dying grief.
When all was over, and the last green sod
| slapped down upon the mound, he could no
where lie found. He had suddenly eluded all
| observation. But ere o week had passed by
he was found dead upon his masters grave,
after the whole neigbborhood had been terri
| fed by q night of the most dismal bowling
| which was ever heard.
| Winny returned to the sphere of her useful
ness and hope, where for many years she con-
| timed to exercise course of unsclfsh charity
which made many a heart sing for joy.
| But she, too, passed away, and was brought
home to her last restiDg-place in Rathcash
chapel yard, where the three tombs are still to
be seen. Were she now alive she would yet
be q comparatively young woman, not much
past sixty-fou or sixty-f years of age. But
| it pleased God, in his inscrutable ways, to re-
| move her FROM the circle of all her bounty and
her love. Had it not been 30, this tale would
not have yet been written.