The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-05-13

mother.
When all was ready she opened the do'r
with no small degree OF ceremony, aud con-
Quoted them down TO the long drawing rso"'
wearing @ much more satisoed e1 PRESTON on
her count or apce than she left behind on thaV
OF Mrs Watson. Having arrived there, sbe
drew q low couch to the further fireplace ana
tn en-, with motherly care, placed q screen oe
tween them and the door, lest wandering
dreught mi . hit stray in and hDd them out IN
their this dresses. Then, though she ram
would have fingered an hour at least she n r-
ried AWAY, for housekeepers have little time
for gossip when dinner parties are on the tapts
Those two Young girls would have made q
pretty picture, they sat amid Tue massive
and costly furniture of fashion iopg gone oy,
their possamer dresses floating like q simmer
cloud among it's beaviness ana gloom anu inc
tieelipht shining softly on their glossy hair
aud fresh young faces. How tney lauRnea a.
the novelty oftheir position, and no" strongly
su pestive of romance aud mystery everything
around them seemed! How soon Mandes ran
cful i'm sgiDatiou peopled the apartment WIN
the forms and faces of ofd-worid novels, Whiie
Fanny drew upon their stock of Irish legends
for phan toms and gliding spectres ana most
of other unsu bs tantial unpleasautnesses toa1
she al avs as socated with old oak paueiIlng
OF course they exchanged ideas, and OF course
as it always does, the marvellous soon cameo
ground over the sentimental, and Mauoe SAT
till, notwithstanding the superinoum bent
weight imposed by Mrs. Watson, her hair near
| Iy rose on her head. At last, while "creepy
crawley" sensation pervaded every fibre OF
their anatomy, Fanny commenced the history
of an Irish cheftain's daughter, the isst OF nor
race whose fortunes were to DO toretoid by GER
tain banshee. Twice already had this unaul-
| able and shadowy parsonage appeared upon the
scene each time under extremely sensational
circumstances, and Fanny was just describing
| her bat like form as threateningiy looming,
| for q third time, in the distance, when both
| girls bounded from the couch with shrek,
for, quite as poiselessly and suddenly as any
bansbee, @ figure bad approached and was
| standing between them and the screen.
II oplv DIR. OM6ara, But was
| banshee more ungracossly received; for
though Maude almost Immediately recovered
herself, Fanny continued to shrek az hin rs
she chung to Maude for protection. Extraor
| binary as such greeting was, OMeara seemed
+ hardly to notice it; for if Fanny vas startled
he was petried. Who was that form before
| him9 Could the grave have given up its dead
| and restored the friend of his youth to her old
home HIS question was soon answered by
the bright flush of confusion that passed over
Maude's countenance, and proclaimed her IN
| mistakably flesh and blood and then the dec
tors agitation succeeded by no small
amount of embarrassment.
| "a thousand pardone y be exclaimed, draw
! ing back. II reaily-that ID to say, l only
"No apologies if You please, DR.. OMears,' -
cried Fanny, as coherently as she oonld, for her
| fit of terror had been succeeded by one OF
| laughter almost az uncomfortable. ut 10
who ought to apologize for giving You such q
reception, though really it was your own fault
for coming in 30 quietly You have nearly
fightened MS out of our senses, terrible
calamity to me, who have none to spare. Let
me introduce you to my cousin, Maude
| Nevillen
Between whom and myself an introduction
can hardly be needed, seeing that we are
friends of twenty years standing" said the
he spoke. MAY l." be continued. "olaim the
privilege Of very old friendship, and be the
first to swear fealty to the lady of the manor =
he knelt as be spoke and, taking the hand OF
lips. "Welcome to Ireland, fair queen Wei.
come to Neville Court; and welcome, doubly,
trebly welcome to the lrish hearts that love
you and yours 80 deeply, and have looked for
you so long" He commenced playfully, but
there was a touch of pathos in his voice as he
concluded that thrilled Maude Neville through
and through. She felt that his was not the
language of aattery, but that out CT the full
ness of his heart he had spoken, and had given
her o genuine welcome home
The doctor drew chair to the fire. IN
derstood from your uncle, Miss Neville, TIA
YOU would arrive among the frat week il
April; may L ask how long you have been ii
IRELAND 7"
-Four days our plans were altered so aud
denly that can hardly believe even yet that
am here"
sand have never heard q word of It'll"
3 But you have been in Dublin, doctor, hav
3 you mott" asked Fanny.
{ ~ have but what of that always say
if bad ne VS. travels FAST good news ought t
travel faster bnt suppose news Of all kinds
like verYthipg else. stands stook-stil! in Bally
crOsS. Bat really Am Vexeo. Wonoe
I Father Donovan did not write to me, mus
:. cay or at any rate his nephew, Fred, tn
}, Connaught News as he is dubbed for his Low
of gossip"
!, FEATHER Donovan did not know it himse'
e till yesterday. He called in the afternoon, bu
;, said he should not write to you as you woul
O | be home to- day. He seemed TO think 20
d would be very much disappointed at bein
o awsv."
eyes, because he knew what went fo
d What do you suppose l have brought HON
}. with me from Dublin, Miss Fanny : asked th
/! Doctor, looking oomically miserable.
v Cant possibly say, doctor. 1 might CUES
everythiDg from 3 wife down to q puppy. dog
ls and yet be- wrong every time"
d Neither of those, promise you, seeing tina
d. the first might quarrel with me, and the tecon
1t would most certainly quarrel with Bat. No
but have brought home suoh regiment
cases. boxes, hampers and parcels, that Jerr
III seemed to think, az he logged them ont of th
train, he should never come to the end of then
ne Now these various packages contain the parI
It, phernalla for giving 81 ss Neville trinmphar
entry; and is it not too bad, after all my pr
l." paratIous, to come home and ind the object
the II az Cnistly seated in her dFawing-Foom g
n if abe had never left 1t 7"