The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-19
sasra,sg Star and Catholic &ess 'Hger,
Wpw ORLEANS, BUN SAY, MAY 10 :Ss.
CASTLE DAILY:
THE
Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago
LContinued.l

.orv To Anne than Ellen's. There was n tone
of recklessne and Indifference about them
that 1rieved her. He was clearly unhappy
away from home, but he seemed to be sinking
into state of listless acqnesoence IN idlentss
aud self-reproach, and as time went on spoke
less and less freq uently of the possibility OF
return.
with the view of rousing him, and tempting
him back to bis duties, Anne wrote constantly,
dwelling not only on the unsatisfactory con
dition OF the nei hborhood where the erect OF
the first partial failure of the potato crop vas
being felt in widespread distress, out men
tioniDR, without scruple, her CONVICTION enat
Mr.. Thornley, had neither experiences nor Jndg-
mont to act jndiciously in the circumstances
that seemed likely to arise, and taxing III Oh
herself to repeat some of Murdock's aud Pe'
ter,e stores to his disadvantage. Sometimes
Mr.. Daly reused himgelf to inquire into par
tioulars and then followed IeIeTences to MIR.
Thornley, himself, and such IA sitting OF evil
dence made great havoc III Ieters state
ments abut geper ally failed TO satisfy Anne,
who could not bear TO give up her fol!o" "ers
yeracity. The most important result OF these
controversies was the prevalence oi on OPINION
spread far and W ide about the country tha'
Miss O'Flaherty was ready TO uphold every
one whatever their deserts might be, who
Swent aginD the Protestant English agent,
and that to thwRrt or outrage him WAS sure
Dassport to protection from her. Anne began
TO be q little shocked aud alarmed at the fer
vour of partizan enthusiasm that greeted her
whenever, according to her won't she ano
Peter Lynch made their appearance AZ the
fairs and markets OF which her people congre.
gated. She tried to put down the groans and
execrations Of the ThOrnleys that hiternated
with blessings on herbelf but Peter LyEch re-
fused to second her, and her applanders told
er TO her face ITO spare her sweet breath for
they knew better than she did herseif how 1t
was with her heart, and that black Frotest'
ants and negroes were rs hateful to her as TO
themselves
Anne could not be surprised that che re
Seved more and moro Indignant letters from
Sir Charles Pelham on behalf OF his young rel
ative; that Ar. Thornley, proudly slgnliled his
determu nation to resign his appointment II any
further report o. his doinGs from Miss OFla'
herty, were listened to by Mr.. DAILY and that
when once or twice in the course of the next
summer she made an attempt at peace-mnk-
ing call of ceremony at Castle DAILY, she was
met at the door by civil bat decided mot at
home"
This rejection OF cvilitits did not, however,
put an entire stop to intercourse. AS the anx'
ious months passed on, there wns an inevitable
drawing together and Increase OF intimacy
among all those whose business it was to take
measures to- alleviate tho dire misery that was
certain now to come. Anne O'FIaherty and
the Thornleys met pretty frequently through
the early autumn on public committees and ut
the houses OF mutual aCquaint"nces, where
plane for the distribution OF relief were being
laid They did not keep out of her way, ind
they did not seek her, aud she conld not bnt
aDkHo wledge that there WAS dignity III their
bearing towards her, the dignity that comes
of conscious rishtdoing.
The brother seemed 10 have grown thinner
and paler since he came into the country, and
the sister looked anxious. One day, atter a
meeting at the house of the Protestant clergy
man at Ballyowen, when Anne, q comparative
stranger to her hosts standing little
apart and not joining in the conversation, she
overheard NJ IS Thornley, complain to the clergy
mans wife of the weary length OF the hours
when she sat alone in the evenings, watohiu K
for her brothers return home, and confess that
terribly anxious thoughts would come when
he chanced to be little later than usual. 1T
was not mere nervousness" she said. She ad
never found it hard to be alone in her life be-
fore, and she could not comfort herself by
thinking that her terrors had any fancy or ex.
aggeration in them-the danger was only too
real, Threatening letters were placed about
the premises, or thrust into the crevices of tho
doors and windows almost every night now /;
and she could not but think that the lonely
road by which her brother returned from 81
Iyowen to Castle DAILY was watched. The
evenings were tolerably light still, but what
would 1t be when the autumn closed In, with
the winter to follow 7 She confessed She
dreaded it.
Mr.. Thornley, here caught sight of Anno's
Mortified face, and made an imperlous sign of
silence to his sister. Anne Poncerrd over that
look and the comprehendDR glance Miss
Thornley, gave her brother back for long hours,
rs she drove home through the dark night by
Potter LyucE's side, as safe in the lonelicst
part of the mountain road 30 by her own fire.
side. She understood quite we'll what the two
looks meant. They thought her their enemy,
through whose adverse influence the danger
had grown up round them, and not for worlds
would they let her have glimpse of its effect
on them, or abate q jot of their pride, by seem
ing to appeal to the compassion of one who
misjudged them. There was plenty of spirit
aye, and Of deep and delicate feeling too, con.
ceAled by those grey masks of faces Anne be
gan not to like to think of the character in
which she must figure in that anxious-eyed
aister's thoughts. She did not sleep we'll that
night, and when she came down in the morn
ing, with her head foil Of the Thornleys still
abe found n long letter of Ellen DAys on the
break fast table, and seized upon it eagerly
hoping it would send her thouRhts and int
ests comfortably into their usual channel. Be
fore she had finished the first page she uttered
an expression of surprise, which 80 alarmed
Murdock Malacby, who was standing stool
still in the middle of the room, with the toast
rack in his hands, Watching her as she read
that she felt Obliged 10 look up. and say, re
Assuringly, NO, there is nothing smiss the!
are ail quito we'll, Murdoch bat Miss ElleI
has curiously enough made the acquaintance
Mt the seaside place in Ergland whore the,
are living now, of young sister of Mr.. Ant
Miss Thornley,, and ain surprised at the des
cCiption she gives OF her"
''The thieves of the world, them Thornleys
cried Murdock, dropping the tosst.rack t.
oh 10 haaA RD IL. J. a.,