The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-25

circumstances in full daylight. Ellen looked
and weird looking in the moonlight, and Q
thrill almost Of awe passed through her. The
likeness TO her father was 90 strong, that she
| frightened her in her childhood, of departed
Dalys who came back In the dead of night to
throng the old rooms. and she felt tong9e-tied.
| as IL to speak would break O spell and Danish
| the presence 40 often lopged for.
Connor put his hand on his cousins shoulder
| with whispered "Husb ~
"He is not the right stuff for conspirator to
bs made Of" he s.id tarniDg to Ellen. "He
would get mp on to the wall his friends were
| hid behind, and make q fine speech to the con-
stables who were looking for them. The trouble
when you have brought me into false posi-
! tions. you mean. Never will 1 trust myself in
yeur guidance again. The bargain was that I
| 81 room to see certain picture. and get bsck
without encou ntering soul, and bere we are
caught in a trap like burglars"
mouse in the Castle with wits enough to set
the lion free IL he did get into trouble" said
Conner, "and wonld not have wanted help if
the place had not been destroyed altogether
with repairs and improvements"
come"
''If we had had any doubt of there being one
to welcome ns, we should have lost it listening
to some words we overheard while we were
waiting to clip in. Did not like what you said
to John Thornley, about how I would thank
him for his contemplate praise of me, If had
the chance Of doing whst liked with his pre-
cious essay'
"Why. where were youi"
"On the ledge of the lowest tarret window,
among the ivy, where we used to sit in old
times and overhear conversations in the draw
ing room, when the window chanced to be
open. had to hold DARCY fast, can tell
come stridipg through tae drawing room win
dow to- clap you on the back for standing up
for u.s."
He is mistaken, Miss DAILY; would not
have moved, or lost syllable for the world.
Ii 1T he's been much to me to come here and
see the place where my mothers thoughts
were till she died, it is even more to know that
there is a -oice 10 the old home that speaks
up for me. 1t was q meme ent never to be for
gotten"
"And you saw her picturef
"Yes," said Connor, ans weripg for his friend.
when all was still in the house, / let him in
by the turret door, and took him up the creak.
ing old turret stairs to the lam sr rooms, and
then across the passage to our old sohoolroom.
too long, for when we got back to the passage
we found the door into the lumber rooms
looked and the key gone"
'Miss Thornley, must have come up to lock
1T before going to bed."
mo; better fun than that, it was little Les
bic herself. We stood in the dark at the end
stairs with tae key in her hand. It was too
provoking! could see t he top of her pretty
head for two minutes and a halt, by peeping
want to fling myself over and fall at her feet.
Would she have taken me for @ ghost and
screamed, wonderp
"Her head is much fuller of robbers than of
ghosts, and that is why she makes q point of
having the door to the lumber-rooms locked
at night. think you must have made more
noise than you are aware of, for mamma was |
restless sat with her an hour, aud was only |
just going to my own room when you saw |
me-"
"By good luck, or we should have had to |
spend the night in the old school room,
and missed the car that is to meet us at |
Ballyowen. We are both due in Dublin by |
midday to; morrow: You may take comfort by !
me for some time to come"
"After this experienced shall never know
when OF where you may turn mp. shall
never new A tsink 2! you safe. Cousin DARCY, must
ELLEN what do you meant Have not
been enough insulted to night by John Thorn
ley's praise, without your insinuating that
am g led dog. to be turned this way and that
at D'Arcy's willP
Needless of Connor's interruption, Ellen,
continued to look up into the deeply .shsdowed
familiar and yet go strange. .Mr. Thornley,
says" she went on, "that il is what will al ter
aud spoil his whole life, and he is so thought
terrible Weight on my conscience to be hiding
all this, not knowing quite whether it is q no.
BILE. or only desperate thing you are doing"
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looked at darkened and changed there was q
parse, as if he were struggling for
voice to speak.
"Yes.n he said hoarsely at last, "you are
right-the concealment, the dark ways, the
poor mean beginnings are terrible; but it is
the path that has to be crept or wriggled
through at the outset of every uprising.
cant tell You that we shall ever get further
than that Icsn't say that we shall rot be
trodden down into the earth we are creeping
through like worms before We ever come up
so far as the daylight of the struggle. 1t may
be simply spOiLing of our lives and nothing
more and You have appealed to me to spare
your brother. What can I sayH-but that
from the beginning to the end, whatever it is,
there shall always be one life, one future, one
that shall go flst-before his,
and be thrust always between him and blame
or danger that can promise you"
THAT was not what 1 wanted but thank
you" said Ellen, mournfully.
Come, now" interrupted Connor, "you
two have talked sentiment long enough for to-
night. If we are to catch the car we must
start at once and if we don't intend to do