The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-30
CASTLE DAILY:
Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago
(Continued.)

her, and she knew perfectly we'll how it wa
that the word neips had come into her mind
her all day, that some tidiDgs were in stor.
for her, and now the purpts, Of opening on
some important communication was 30 plainly
written In John's face, that she read 1t yard
Off Well. she was ready, only she thought
she would pot off tho evil day for half an hour
or so II che could.
"I an going into the house now" she cried
% John approached. II warn you, yon will
hnd the turf. walk very wet"
"Can't You stay out little longer, Bride7
have not been able to exchange q word with
You for more than q week"
"Look as my boots"
"Brisk walking will dry them and you say
yourself that nothing ever gives you cold"
az don't think meant to include wet boots;
but ! see you are of Connor Dalys opinion,
that am as hard as nails"
what business had he to say SO But, Bride.
go in and change your boots, If You like. 1
talk with you"
"And am ready for talk, wet or dry,
only / won't go back to the turf-walk for any
one.n
''Let us oome out on to the road, then,
through the kitchen garden 1t is dry enough
there
"why through the kitchen garden -
"Miss DAILY and Sir Charles Pelham are still
on the front terrace, and should not like to
disturb them.r
"Aud that other pair in the ower-garden-
are we not to disturb them 7 Do you see,
how long they have been down there looking
for violets. Long enough, have no doubt, to
make it only prodent for ms to go and act
:, "No. NO; Babette has only just left the
house. She and / have been together the
whole afternoon. Como with me; you need
not interfere. should think We might trust
even Connor DAILY not to begin talking nom
sense to Babstts the day after his fathers
funeral"
"But it is not the day after Babette's
fathers funeral, and am not sure that can
trust her not to ts!s nonsense to him on such
IN interesting occasion as o fret walk after o
week of gloom. No, don't start. l am not
saying any harm of her bat can't you see
forget, or let other people forget, that they are
girls, and in the very nature of things require
nonsense to be talked to or by them :"
81 think you underrRte Lesbis. 1t strikes
me that she has shown remark kabls good sense
and feeling during this last try ing week and
this afternoon she came to me of her own
sccord, and consulted me about q plan for the
future she has thought out with considerable
clearnese and prudence, as it seems to me-"
"Oh, she came to you about it IL is her plan
yon OH have been discussing together ~
"OI course; you don't suppose that IL
made plan should 60 and talk it over with
little Babette before mentioned it to you.
Why, Bride thought you were miles above
suspicion, and would never imagine suoh a
perners as We are, you and In
"Well, we'll whatever l may have been
thinkipRs don't stand still and stare at me 10
that is punishment enough for all my sins.
Let as move on towards the road and tell |
me this wonderfully clever plan Of Lssbia's."
Remember that 700 have veto on 1t, aud
that II you seriously oil jsct We both submit at
once"
"Honestly."
"speakiDg of myself should be sorry to |
gtsted 70 me, and see through it q way |
opened of fulfilling an obligation that
weighs on me but your wishes come frst
new obligations don't unloose old ones. We
bave fought hard battle together, you and /,
Bride; and not for the world, not for any new
duty in the world, would even seem to throw
you over, or detach myself from you, now we
are beginning to win IT,"
"John, you force me to be magnauimous.
Here and now yield for ever an old point of
diePute. solemnly ackno owledge that men
Are Joster than women and that they can,
the good oAes, even under the impulse Of .
new feeling, see how things look to those Tho
don't share their infatuAtion."
bat, Bride l said nothing about new
Against my will hos been thrust upon meh
On yes, heard but now the plan. Let
ne hear the plan, and when my mind is set at
:eat about that, We will. If there is time before
aressing for dinner, take out our microscopes
md our scalpels and dissect our motives scien-
,i6oally."
swell, you are aware that Mr.. Daly's will
was read yesterday morniug, aud that all the
afternoon and evening Sir Charles Pelham
Who is Mr.. DAly's trustse-and the sons and
we're hard at work examining papers and dis.
,nesinR possibilities. It was di,heHrtening
AK enough, for the affA Airs are even in worse
'onfu sion than might have been expected
md when went to bed last night could not
zee that there was anything left for the family
'us separation. and dependence on the gem
Of their relations. for q time at least.
re nave gone through such another crisis,
sride. and know what it means"
xeSr yes and am sure feel very much
OF them ali but don't believe they can be
loarly as badly off as we were when We were
armed out of Abbots Thornley,. The soma are
10Th grown mp and educated in @ way, and
Ierfd
"A very small sum. You are right to cay
hat the sons are educated in tray just
nough to make itimpossible for them to be-
"lt ie very sad, and, as you say We have
|one through 1t all ourselves but, John,
lont think me hard hearted if remind YOU {
hat you have often said you believed we I
anne through as we'll as we did because from
he arst NO illusive offers of help were held
as TO 1s by anyOne, and we knew ct once all ,
70 had to face, and that our dependence
anet be on ourselves and each otherb