The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-10

poor Murdock lay, and had his body remov ed
to q cabin near before dark
"And you don't really know any more OF
ConnorT
mo; to follow him. or inquire about bim
would have been TO draw attention to bim.
We know that tie leadels separated before
night O'Brien was arrested on his way to
Limerick, but the others less conspicuous,
seem to have reached their destinations, and
We will hope by this time are over the sea.
Darcy O'Donnell has friends in Galway and
l think he told me once a foster-brother anon z
the Bladdegh fishers. He could not have q
safer hiding place than among them. or one
from which he could more conveniently get Ctf
to America.
| rWhep shall we know n
"Wben we get a letter from the other side of
the sea to say they are safe in New York. Don't
VISA to hear of them sooner; they ar in a very
different position now from what / believed
them to be in when thought of bringing Con-
nor back. After their conduct that miserable
day on the common at BoUghlah, we should
have to fear the very worst for them if they
were taken. Let US pray as the best hope we
have that We may not see their faces again,
poor boys. for years.
"And Pelhami"
at certainly won't tell in his favor that his
brother has made himself conspicuous as q
rebel but once are assured that Conn or is
safe in America, Pelba defence will be com.
paratively easy. Nothing can be brought
against him but the possession of those papers
and we shall have DO scruples about bringing
people to show their true authorship then"
Yet believe if Connor knew this minute
whore Pelham was, he would come back"
cit would be like bis rashness; but trust he
will not know; wherever he is now he won't be
likely to put bimself forward to inquire for
| news. l hope he has money eucugh to get
across"
Poor, poor Murdock Malachy! 1 sm not
| thin king much is ought of his devotion to
Connor. How it would tou ch Anne If we could
| tell her. Does it not seem strange that if only
| two were to fall in the attempt she has been
| dreading for 80 many months, one should come
| from hor peoplef"
II made the best arrangements could for
decent burial for him, knowing she would
wish it. A strange thought came into my
| mind as l stood looking taL his body, after it
was laid ont. thought of the old custom of
| killing the favorite servants over chieft aims
| grave, that he might have -pnople to wait ON
| him, to his mind, in the other world and /
could not help sort Of satisfaction coming
over me as said TO myself,-st all events
there'l be one Of hers waiting for her when she
gets over the river. 1t would be comfortable
| for the two of them, lift was permitted to them
to fall into anything like their old relat ship
to each other up there, and Murdock would
not have to serve alone for long. My poor
cousin Peter will soon follow him. / don't
believe he'll be long for this world when once
he let's himself believe that his mistress is
really dying. I'll go and have word with
| him now"
The strange thought came back into Ellen e
| mind in the evening, as she stood in the bay
windo " of Annes favorite turret room, delay
ing to shat ont the light of the harvest moon,
q o,
whose election made q faint glimmer in the
river. The house within was very still aad
| empty. Its owner, to whom in past times oil
| the life and enjoyment in it had been doe, w as
now lying upstairs helpless and uucor scious ::
the b'dy at least helpless-the spirit ebbng
slowly away FROM its old abiding place to
what conditional Would any of the old links
| reform themselves 7 Would Murdock aud the
| many poor neighbors who had gone from
Annes valley in the famine years-people
whom she had protected and governed--would
they DO able to meet her with thankI aud
greetings in the fresh existencei Would che
| still look to them like queen worthy of their
! alleRiancei Perhaps those old sacrifices of
which DR.. Lynch had reminded her were not
prompted by slvagery and selfish pride alone;
| there might have been true love in them-a
sort of necessity even, in the days hen service
was not altogether an arbitrary thing but
| was, sometimes, at least, the complete loyal
giving up of the lower, weaker natures to the
stronger and higher natures, who ruled them
and gave their lives shape and meaning.
AS these thoughts crowdedin leus mind,
her eye wandered over the landscape almost
without seeing anything, and then suddenly
perception Of what was before her came tack
with start, and thrill went through her as
sho remembered that, for about minute, she
had been watching the approach of mans
! figure to the head of the bridge. aud uow per-
celved that he was moving along with the
limping gait that had always distin yuishsd
Murduck Malachy. She did not scream, but
she sat down breathless on the wiud0w.siIl.
The faint light made every thing shadowy and
SnoSO-llke' III might be her Imagination, &C
| oupied with thoughts of Murdock, that created
the image, yet it came steadily on and grew
! more solid-lookiug at every step. In the
| shadow of the house it became black, un3is-
tingnishable form +; but it drew close to the
| window, leaned its arms on the sill, aud said
| in a low voice, that Ellen recognised at orcs
Anne, is that You VIII you take me in
as you did once before, when ran away and
| surprised you here at tho windowf"
| "Connori dear, dear Connorl it is not Anne;
it is l, Ellen. How could you come back here
| - pnt yourself in danger of being seen by
| ORooneT
Go md to the door and let me 10, aud III
| tell You oil about it. Pm too tired and faint
| to jump through the window now"
"And hurt are you hurtf-you walk lame. ,
"Only footsore and, at all events, before
morning comes, and present myself to old
| O'Roone to save him the pleasure of sending
| for me, We will have had our talk ont, aud Iii
have seen Anne agsin, and supped off Happy
| go'luoky fish-pe once MORE"
| "Where's D'Aroy 7" Ellen asked, as soon 81
she had brought Connor in, and shut the dooi
| Of the room behind him.
''In Galway tonight; but before forty
eight houIs are over, he'll be- on she aea o.