The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-06-10

suited by hrst selling, as he ola, mis- birth
right for Q little food, and afterwards consent
ing to stihe his coincidence for the value of
pig! Yes" she continued, as though partly
apeaking to her own heart, ~ would have
"Did I not say 40 p cried Miss Barbara
with mosking laugh; "am not right And
would not anybody else have said 90 who had
seen you latelyf 1t is not very dificult to
| guess why you have gone from the Ritualists
10 the Romsnists. Well, am sure somebody
ought to be fsttered, for II 10 not every heire.s
that would pick him up with pair Of tongs"
snG son. & narDaaa s~sp. r 90. OF me r ~om.nt.
after her departure, but the young girls sat
and looked at each other In silent sstopieh-
meut. Al length Fanny broke ont into an in
oontrolable ft Of laughter. which vas the i'm
mediate signal for Maude to burst into tears.
"Maudie. my darliug,n cried her coosin,
springing from her seat, = beg OF you not to
grieve. What does it signify. what can 1t
signify, whatever $ bigoted woman like aunt
Barbara chooses to say J"
warm pressure of the hand was the only
response
are all sorry that you are q Ritnalist but
even so, what business has aunt Barbara to
interfere with your cOnsciencef It only shows
how true it 10 that fools rush in where
yon spoke of it, papa had wished to talk to
you upon the subject, bat would not do so
until you first consulted him. because he con.
sidered 1t matter between God and yourself.
For. after all, You stll belong to the Church
of England. It wonld be very different if you |
were really Roman Catholic. do not sup |
That would Indeed be q grief to us ALL"
Mnude buried her face in :he cushions.
" Bot, indeed, you must not think another
word about aunt Barbara" said Fanny, who
for her other wicked inuoendo, We all know
it is perfectly untrue. Be assured that we all |
understand both you and the doctor thor
ooghly; nobody appreciates more than papa
= nr~r r&rA l,Ao -~,n l. a
among the people. nor your anxiety to help
him. As for me. I sometimes think that, see.
ing all be has done for you, you are hardly
Eind enough to him. am very sure if yon
be positively ungrataful So you see, /, at
east. am not likely to snspect you of any par
icular attachment to the doctor" And as
zoe spoke che once more folded Maude in q
ong and loving embrace. IL was well she
lid SO; for thns it was that the flush thst
uddenly suffused her cousins face remained
Innoticed. and, all unconscious of Maude's
motion. Fanny kissed her again and again,
' Vhsperng, as she did SO, words of consola-
ion. and softly preaching patience and for
'earance even with aunt Barbara
CHAPTER Xxx.
The few words that Mary Murphy had !
poken to her brother in-law on St. Patrick's.
ay had uade q far deeper impression on his
mind than she herself had dared to hobe. Her Ee
therefore, was almost as great | l
$ her delight when she heard from her chill {
rem few days after that little Norah and I
er brother Mike bad once again made their |
ppearance at the Catholic school. She hew
0 her husband with the tidings, and during q
he next few days many q fervent thanks. q
iVinR arose from that little cabin and from "a J
mall field hard by, when Peter earned the q
ally bread for his family by the sweat Of his b
row. Still little was said by either the hus- )
and or wife TO the neig bors around them on
he subject; for Peter was far 700 cautious TO f
AXE too much for granted with regard to
inns amendment. No ediciner ever dreaded e
partial core and relapse for patients body a.
lore than Peter dreaded such u calamity for L
IL brothers soul and when pious old fl
oman dilated on one or two little circum- n
,anoes sbe had observed as hopeful signs in 2
inns family of better things, Peter's only re-
~ was to break out into invectives, az bitter n
I'D heaped such black diagrace upon his lh
lends" Bat deep down in his own heart h
eter believed in and reoced over his brothers re
ncerity far more than he cared to own. And d,
II Mary's words had awakened in Tins b.
cart such horror of himself, as she had W
,rtrayed him, &c DDS enemy aud the murderer te
his ohildren's souls," that he had resolved, h.
lere and then, to return to his ancient faith "
las, poor Tim he had as yet TO learn that q
mething moro the q mere nman resol ution q
'weVes strong 1t may be. is needed in the p
'ur Oh temptation. That hour had come IN
oner than he had expected, and having no p
&her power to rely on than his own weak u,
an nau oeeu worse than the first" b.
Who shall paint the feeling of sickenipR b
sappoiptmept with which Peter heard that tc
ms children had been once more sent to Il
. Protestant school, and that he and his b
lfe were again to be seen at the Protestant OF
Iurch The blow was almost more than he "a
uld bear, coming, as it did, in the very face &C
the hope he bad been 80 foudly, though a
cretly, nourishing. Only the cousoI alton of "
5 religion sustained him in his sfflotion. Of
1t those Who knew him best-not even Mary OF
rself-understood all that he had suffered: b.
r Peter, al~ays quiet, now grew taciturn in b
s Rriet, and seemed to repel all efforts at u
'ntolStion. From the moment that the ne wa h
Tins second detection was brought to bim "
sternly forbade his very name to be uttered &c
his presence, and often walked many a mile h
It of his way, rather than pass his cabin and k
n the risk of encountering him. Tim, on rt
q part as may be we'll believed, took euual fc
ecautions; and consequently, for the last h
70 monthe. although their cabins were within m
70 minutes walk of each other, the brothers 81
ID never met.
Peter was therefore considerably astonished.
10 afternoon about the middle of June, to see
8 brothers eldest boy, Mike, run towards h
3 cabin as fast as his legs would carry him, Il
yinR bitterly. 81
=" What's the matter, Mickey, my ladf" asked q
ary kindly, as the boy threw open the b