The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-22

| to morrow TnAt hand clasp in the chapel
seemed iust then to baye made him indePend
| ept OF future meetings or partings, and to have
| given him a spi ritual hold on her presence &C
firm that no distance of space nor spite OF cir
| cumstance could ever oblige him to let 1t &c
| again. Far or near, dear to ber or Indifferent
| be believed he should live from heuceforth IL
| it's light.
CHAPTER xxxIT.
| Good Heaven! what torrows glOomed that parting
| That called them ftom their native wake away
Mass p9s bs osa2
For seats IKE these bsyoId d the western main,
Returned and Sept and still returned to weep"
DEsERTED VILLAGE.
"Yes, be was right / have made mistakes.
would not believe anything contrary to my
hopes. / chose to forget the other laws be-
sides my own that were ruling my little king
dom. There was pride aud presumption, as
well as want of foresight, in my plans"
Bat Mr.. Thornley, says now that it was he
Who was in the wronG--he does indeed, Con 81 q
Aune. He sccnses himself of presumption for
differing from you and l liked him for ssyi &
that, and believed ID him as had never done
bt fore"
Well, the purgipg IS severe eoough; we
glorifyin2 illusions at all events
Aune Q FIsherty, who, IN the energy OF her
first Speech had partly raised herself from her
sofa ssuk back weary and faint at these
words, aud Ellen came near to battle her fore.
couooc'ed, after one of her own recipes, from
Good Peoples Hollow wild flowers in happier
days.
She WAS slo WY recovering = from bad attack
of the famine fever. "BIt was it recovery, or
only passing into another stage of illness y
Ellen sadly asked herself, when, having done
what she couli to revive her patieEt, she re
snmed her seat By her side. aud looked loving
ly at the changed face. There wss something
on it more hopel than traces of illness /;
there was lIfeless droop of the mouth ana
eyes, a weight of WEAKNESS and pain on the
brows ('neart break") Peter Lynch called it,
which Ellen had first noticed there before the
fever attacked her, on her return from Col.
way. where she had accompanied the first
band of emigrants from her valley, aud seen
tlem embarE in I ne ship that was to take
the IN to America.
Another party shortly to follow, as
mi ght he gathered from tho heaps of bundles
OF clothing ticke ted " It names lat flied tie
tables, and were piled up against t1e walls of
the turret room, to the exclusion of the little
works of art that had been stored there in Old
times. Ellen's fingers I'D been busy the
component parts of another handle when the
| conversstion began aud Apne had only late
ly let flannel garment fall to the ground, be-
cause her weak fRgers could not hold it. In
o few minutes Ellen took up her work, and
with the busy movement Cf her needle, re-
| sumed the talk, beginning, without preface,
on the subject that she knew her PATIENTS
thoughts were at work UPON
Il think the letters from America that ar
rived last night are quite as encouraging ss
we had any right to expect. To be sure the
pretty little Katy Malony, died on the voy-
| age bat q great many more of them wonld
have died OF the fever if they had stayed here
! in excellent spirits and hopes. Don you like
Mary Burke's description of Auerca-'A
| blessed land that God has m1de purposs
for the poor"
Il ought to feel more cheered than / do b 1T
| ] am like foolish old hen other, whose
brood has strayed beyond her power to ciuck
them back to her. Those people, whose fore
fathers lived aud died on this little nook of
| earth, under my forefatheres protection, and
whose hearts seemed bound to the soil that
nourished them, thought that God had given
thu III into my hands to rule and keep guard
over; and l want to be quite sIre that it is
| His decree, aud not my own misreaGiug of it,,
| that ,mpels me to opeu my hand and let them
| stray away"
MIR. Thornley, las n doubt that emigration
is the right remedy for the pveeent misery. He
says that it ffers mach better lifs TO those
WHO go away, and that being rid of what he
| cal the surplus population Will immensely
| Improve tie condition of those who stay"
| Yes. l unGe sand the reason of that, if
men or nations lived by bread alone; but they
don't, at least We Irlsh people don't There
no say ug whet Is the surplus population in
q race where hearts are bound to hearts SO TO-
timstely, that distance can stretch bat never
break the links don't believe the emigra-
tion will stop at 1st those people going who
are not wanted here Soon there will be
thousands Of voices calling f:om the other
side OF the sCa, Come over TO ns,' and the
mol hers and the brothers aud the lovers left
at homo will rise AID 90, aud in their tlrn
swell the chorus OF invitation till there Is
one left to hear it'll our valleys and our
hIII-sides are empty or Inhabited by sitfns.
| 10 no: say that better state OF thugs IL ,aJ
not ari.e-fJr ErElaUd but am Irish-
womar; cann,t help having soma Qralm1 az
assisting ut " hat far may be our Dation's
deatl thrCeI
"Conlor would re- ,ice if se heard you speak
in this fashion, Coosin Anne. He would
Claim ou one Of HE party at once. His
friends very angry about the emigrst on,
and say, as you do, that now the tide has set
in nothing will stop it but revolution that
restores independence to IrelaDd.'
"As don't say. You know have no sym
pathy with the baseless dream of Connor's
party. though may take ne same view they
do of what this crisis is for Ireland.
"Connor says this tine is jo.t the last posi-,
Lle opportunity for Ireland to stand up and
claim her Independence rs a united nation
for that If her people allow themseIves to be
drawn or driven away from their nbtive soil,
the Old links between rich and poor will be
broken for ever and that when the peasant-
~ come back, : be belleves they will and
claim the land, il will not be much ae Irish