The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-27
CHAPTER XXXVII.

when Iowa With unconfned wings
Hovers within my gates,
4 nd nv divine AlLnea brings
When lie tangled in her lair
And fettered to her eye,
The birdie that wa pder in the air
Know no such liberty
mo, Wattie there is no use in your trying
to play tricks on me about the letters now,
because if yon do shall feel obliged to send
you back to Whitecliffe, and take away the
gun and sword gave you when you came
here" said Lesbia, looking up with dignity
from behind the silcer tea-nrn she was pEesd-
ing over at her little cousin who was exrcut
ing an iDsnltng war-dance before her face,
with the letter bag concealed behind his back.
II can't think how it is that you don't learn
to treat me with more respect, Waite, now
that you are staying with me at Castle Daily,
and l am Sd kind to you and make you go
many presents. Now don't Won think he ouph5
to treat me differently, John I" she continued,
appealing to her brother, who stood with his
back to the fireplace TRANQUILITY watching the
contest
"Ioau't say. Perhaps Waite is a clothes.
philosopher, like Professor Teufe!sdrockh, b,
whose life you decline to study, and he is taxi
ing this picturesque me thod Of expressing his
| conviction that nothing more respectable ex-
lists under oil your togRery than the original
little Babette whom he was brought up to
bully"
II wish you would make him give up the
letter bag, however. John. Don't you want
the Times yourselff
"No it will be full of tho Irish rebellion,
and we know more about it than they do out
| there
The Irish rebellion! Why is there o re.
beihonf Has is really begun, and yor stand
| warming your back there as quietly at if you
! did not care what happened to Us all I"
IL AN warDiog my back because 1 have
been mp all night writing letters aud trans
acting Business aud am very tired and as
| for the rebellion believe, or at least hope
| thAtit 10 viIt 1ally over, and that throug ghout
Ireland, as ab,ut here, the active spirits w he
were looking forward to general scrimmag ge
| will awake this mormn & in safe keeping com.
fortably slowed in prison ont of the way OF
! mischief"
| "Oh, John! was that what you were doing
all yesterday, when you went out 80 early and
| did not get back till after dark ~
! "Do you take me for police cfi GER 2 or d.
| yon suppose that have power to realize the
Roman emperor's wish, with difference, nnC
J concentrate all the rebels in Ireland in ont
prison van -
But you were busy all day aud, John. dc
! you know that l cav James Morris shakipE
possible grimm aces behind your backf"
| II hope it relieved his feelings"
"You had been helping to send people t.
| prison, then, 0m sure. If Connor DAILY az
been one of the rebels brought before you
! what should yen have doneH"
| HE was not one; but it would, perhaps
have been the best thing that could have hap
pened to him il he had been, for fear he ha
| left Dublin. Now. Waite, We have had enough
of those antics. Give up the lettsr.bsg to MI
| and come to- breakfast"
"You ought to be extremely anxious, IL yoI
have the leRSt Affection for yOnr poor mother,
said LesbiN EeproAohfully, "for there is moe
likely . letter from Bride in 1t to tell US hOv
! she is.