The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-22
break, and, despite his fifteen years, fairly
sobbed in his fathers arms.

d CHAPTER III.
" The parlisDen tary session had been owe
d some time, the shooting season had jast CON
menoed, and autumn browns of various tip At
10 began TO glow on the trees in the London pa r
d as the slauting sun beams streamed richly an
" redly through their branches. The stream @
,, life that during the summer, like q rapi
river, bad poured its tide through the thoroug b
q fares or the West end, now, like that sam
Q rivee d"indled to the dimensions of q brook
], let, drawled and crawled along with littl
noise or notice. London was OUT of town.
With the ardor hat in earlier days had dis
tnGuished Sir Morcar in the management o
his estate, he had gone heart and soul into
f oliiics, and no and his family were among
the few who remained behind in the desert o
forsaken London. We do not mean to infer
that this formed part of his parliamentary ca.
reer. His brother M Prs hgdS long since
thrown of the cares of business, and were die
porting themselves at their ease moor and
tnou ptain; but Sir Horcar had stayed behind
the rest to Correct the proofs of q work he was
bringing out on extended franchise'-a stu
pen1ous work, a. least 80 his admirers term. d
| II, destined in their opinions to open the eyes
OF a slnmoering world TO a host of startling
| truths. 1t was, however, just finished and
SIT Morcar, like the rest of the great and hrte
world, prepared to take wing, not, az Lady Me-
vilie had hoped against hope To his estate,
| but to The country residence of D brother mem
Der, whose interest he desired to copciiate.
she was disappointed, for he had half PROM
ised to take her home, and she had lain awake
night after night, picturing poor Richards
rapture. and the delight of the tenanrry. Sle
represented to her husband how much his
presence was required at Ballycross, where
according to letter from DIR. OMeara, affairs
we're anything but satisfactory among the
tenantry. Nobody knew this better than Sir
Morcar himself, and this was precisely the
reason why he resolved not to visit Ireland.
LIS parliamentary career had involved him ia
expenses he had never contemplated and
must nave ended in serious embsrrassments
mad he rot found freud in need ia Mr. |
Co!q uhoun. In his hands the estate seemed TO |
tn hay h..npT Il
deuiy q niue of gold, though what the process |
was that eXLraoted the glIJJering ore SIR Nor |
car old not lnqnIre; aud the doctors letters |
thab whispered uncomfortable uuth s were far |
lfob welcome. He, however, consoled nImsel T |
"itn the resolution Of visiting B4liycross b.
lore long 10 see for himself how the system
WORKED, Dnt tor the present he was FIR too |
pussy: In answer to the questions of his WIFE,
or Morcar SAID d great deal about the respon-
sioiittes or his position, and the dnty of sac
flhclng his private interest for the good of his
couHtTy put promised her, as he ha al promised
himself To run over to Iceland, if possible AT
= christmas, and set all to rights. SO LADY
neville SAID no more though many a bitter
tear fell in secret she prepared for her de.
parture to house of stran GERS.
Alas for the blindness OF mortals! Could
'he have known it, how vain were Lady Me-
much was never destined to be paid Tue yerv
lay before the one fixed for leaving London
'ne became suddenly ill-so i'll that the doctor
AIKEN out of the house immediately The nevt |
morning his worst fears were realizsd it was
eVer-ieyer caught, as it 60 often is nobody
>neW now, nobody knew where and though
OF weeks she struggled against the malady |
ne CRISIS came at last, aud all hope was over
short time before her death she became
ensioie but oh the agony of those lucid mo-
he worst evil Of mixed marriagel Forbear
ng as Sir Morcar had been fos the last few
ears, never restraining or attem ptiug to re-
train her in the exercise of her religion sha
I'd yAk,a 20, |
til were, and shut0ered at the though.
hat her chllds faith must be left hencef,rward
thelr hands. Not 80. my CHILD but 10 the
ands OF the good God,' whispered the gentle I
olce OF the Jesuit Father, VINO was preparing ,
er lot death. At her request he wrote fe w ,
Irried lines to DR.. O'Mesra, imploriDg him to l
'atch over her ohild. and if ever her religion r
nouto To In danger, to guard it to the utmost +
MS power. Nor vas this letter her only CON
ola'lon In Der hoar of need. Sir Moroar, worn r
lthost TO shadow with grief and Watching i
rcmised of his own accord that Maud. shoufS @
q reared Catholic. and th at so solemuly that d
seemed an insult to his love and honor TO q
I the one gnawing dread that harassed that .
cath bed, otherwise 50 peaceful, or who de =
'ribe the intensity of that dying Injunction @
D her husband, Remember a
She died, and Sir Morcar carried her loved h
emalns across the islands, and buried her O
mong the people she had loved so we'll. Then e
. sent for her old Catholic nurse from Kerry, a
nd gave his little Maude into her charge and n
hen started, grlef-bowed and aged before his q
me, to seek distraction where-every-
here. He went abroad, and wandered from
no country to another: sometimes dwelling
,r weeks IN Alpine villages; sometimes ex.
iorlng the antiquities of Rome; sometimes 10
using by the kline; sometimes gazing, as :
nongh oeWlldered, at tho moving CROWDS of -
arls or Vienna; bat alwayg silent, ALWAYS
lone; at last, one morning, about twelve
lonths after his departure fearful tidlnss1
7ached Balycross: Sir Morcar's horse had
;umbled and thrown his rider in the Champs
lysees' and he had been raised from the
rooud in dying state. Overwhelmed with
REF, Edward Neville started for Paris, but
ceive his last farewell ~
Never in this world did Edward Neville
nc" what had happened only half an bour
eIore his arrival. Never did he learn how
10 tsithtal endurance of a Catholic heart, h.
lrouSnont long years of persecution had |
one It's silent work, work little suspectsd or
' e, ,. OF even by itself Bat 80 it was. For
10 l@St I'VE years growing every day more aud n
ore catholic in heart, SIR Morcsr had sent "
e priest on his deatabed; and tue CAIN NJ
nlte brow that Edward Neville kissed SO mas. 49,
onateIy III his fraternal love and grief vas ,
III wet with the waters of conditional ban II