The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-26

| that the new BtEAD GO temptation OF q time OF
| wealth was coming upon her.
| Anne o OFlaherty' 3 thoughts took fiji ght in tie
| same direction many times that day. The let
ter whose direction Bride had read was hers
She bad written it off impnlsively on her arri-
val home the night before, and not allowed
herself to re- read it in the morning. It was
| foil of the impression her visit to the Thorn
| leys had made on her. Not mitigating any
thing of hersfears, or scrupliug to urge strong
| ly on Mr.. DAILY the motive for q speedy return
to Ireland, which she knew would be most
pow erful with him, the duty of not allowing
another man to run risks for his sake which he
was not sharing.
She was anxious aud unsettled all the day
after her letter went. She did not exactly re-
greet bavir written it, but the cooler judg.
meut of the morning showed her it as an
mportant step she had taken, and that the
change in the lives of those she most cared for
Would they have cause to thank or reproach
her for it by and byei Would Mrs. DAILY ever
forgive her for bringing her husband back to
Ireland just thenf
There was however use in questioning or
regrettipg. Bearers of good news and bad had
through the bright sunshine and the dark
ight and the dawn of another day, were over
the sea, by quiet country roads, through noisy
towns and pleasant English yilleges, to meet
the eyes and hands that would never after
wards forget the feeling of those particular
sheets OF paper between their fingers. the posi-.
tion and shape of the words on which their
startled Rlances fell
CHAPTER XII
Ny purse hold red gold, of the silver white
No herds mine drive through long twilighti
But the petty girl that would take al bare though
oh I'd take her with me kindly to ths county Tyrone
Irish Ballad
sharp shower was falling, turning the
badly paved streets the little seaside village
of Whitecliff into q succession of gutters and
puddles, and driving the early promenaders
and the troops of children, m ammas, and nurse
maids on their way to their morning bath in
| the STA, to beat hasty retreats into the green
| veraudahed houses that stretched in irregular
rows along the cliff. In ten min utes the busy
! little place was deserted, and discon tented
| loungers at the windows b ad nothing to regsle
| their eyes upon but the rain drops splashiug
in the gntters and the occasional advent of
dripping um brela, or woman with basket
| of shrmps on her head. Pelham DAILY had
| been standing for nearly three quarters Of an
| honr 10 the window of one of these houses,
laZily swinging the tassel Of the window blind
| back wards aud for wards, and contem plating
that pleasant prospect in no very con tented
| frame of mind. Ellen had accused him play
| fully OF being always out of humor when 1t
| rained and Connor b ad made calculation of
| how many sulky days he might reckon on hav-
ing in year, if he spent his life at Castle
| DAILY, and he had not taken their remarks in
very good part. He thought within himself
that he had very special reasons for being dis
gusted at the torn the weather bad taken in
! this last week of his College vaoati on, bnt he
could not make out a very satisfactory account
of these reasons to his own mind in the course
of his meditations at the window. OF course
|
whether that picnic to the pirates cave. plan
| ned with the Maynards, came off while he was
| at Whiteclif or after after he had left. BE
had only consented to join it out of good
nature, and that there might be some one of
the party capable of taking reasonable care
of Ellen; and yet-and yet-"Yes, certainly"
he thought, ait was towards him, and not to.
wards Connor, that a certain pair of brown
| eyes had glanced when, on parting for the
night at the Waynards' garden gate the words
We shall meet tomorrow had been spoken
/ a wi pnin fpo hon VII
| dow-Praue. the dripping pavement vanished
| altogether from Pelham's vision for few mi
| utes while the momento question of the exact
| direction of that glance occupied his thoughts
lin their place came little pink and brown
| face set in smooth bands of soft dusky hair,
and two bright eyes, flashing quick glances,
| thought. Not that he cared or was ever likely
| to care seriously what the glsnoes meant, only
it was tautahzing never farirly to know
| whether one was looked at or not All at once,
in q second, his eyes recovered the power of
| seeing what was before them-the dream pic.
ture faded and reality oame in its place,
| vividly, startlingly, sending quick pulses
through all his veins as he gazed. The back
door of a house jast opposite, but divided from
the street by narrow strip of garden, opened,
and child of four trotted forth into the rain.
The slim figure Of girl dashed 1T after him
and caught him by the skirts to drag him in.
Floating pink founces, white handkerchief
thrown dark head, little feet in thin
slippers showing on the wet step, slender hands
stretched out,-that was the spectacle Pei
hams eyes fastened upon and recognized in a
moment. small contest followed. The little
child struggled bard to escape from the arms
that captured bin. A sturdy hand directed
blow at the pink cheek, shaded by the hand
kerchief. Pelham clatcaed the window-fr frame
with wild purpose of finging himself out
across the divided space on to the scene of
action. Then all was over; the Fl cures retreat
ed as suddenly as they had appeared, and no
evidence of the incident remained but the deep
glow that had burned itself into Pelhan's
tace. and the quick beating of his heart that
had been 30 quiet minute before. -
1t was no concern of his, certainly, he said
to himself, he was going away tomorrow and
should never see any of those people again !;
but if any excuse for thrashing every one of
those cubs of Maynards could be afforded
him before he took his departure he should
leave tbs place with easier mind. How
could Ellen and Connor witness such q state
of things as indifferently they didf How
could they laugh gaily over the incopgruities
of their friends surroundings, and only
subjects for amusement in the little indignites
which made him, who had no pretence to her
i.