Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-07-30

quarter Of IN hour, when suddenly .
huge shadow was dung across my path,
and looking up again ! behsld the stran.
ger. His hat was pushed back now, and
lmw for the first time that his face was
handsome. His cheeks were bronzed
and weather.beateu, but his features
ware finely formed, and on his head
clustered : ma. Of curling chestnuthair.
He Wa flushed ~ II with excitement
he cast me . hurried glance and disap-
peared.
Five minutes after, ~ / still stood
wondering ct the strange behavior of the
man, my ears were greeted with . shrek
which pierced to my very heart. Rum
ming In the direction from whence the
sound proceeded, I reached the top of .
neighboring sand hill, and gazing into
the valley below me I again beheld the
stranger. This time his head wa bare
his arms were o~utstretched, and he held
upon his breast the half-fainting form
Of the lovely girl whom I had last beheld
In the moonlight. While I stood hest.
tating - to the utility Of descending, I
NV the girl gently withdraw herself
from his arms, then, clasping her hands
around his neck, fall sobbing on his
breast.
"Well, Shawn, what's the newsf" l
asked that night when Shawn rushed
excitedly into my room. For . time he
could tell mo nothing, but by dint of q
few we'll applied questions I o ex-
tracted from him the whole story. It
amounted to this, that after working for
two years like . galley slave, in the
black pits Of Pennsylvania, with nothing
but the thought Of Norah to help him
on, Miles Doughty found himself with
enough money to warrant his coming
home; that he VA about to return to
6tofport, when unfortunately, the day
before his intended departure, . shaft in
the coal pit fell upon him and he was
left for dead; that for many months he
lay Ill, but - soon o. he wa ct to travel
he started for home. Arrived in Stor-
por. he Wa sstoniAhed to find that NJ
one knew him, and he was about to pass
himself off - q friend of his own, when
the news of his reported death and
Norah's sorrow 70 shocked him that he
determined to make himself known at
once.
"And God help the william that told
her he was married." concluded Shawn,
" for he swears he'll kill him as soon as
Norah-God bless herl-comes out O.
the fever that she's in tonight"
just three months after that night, I
found myself sitting in the hut where
Norah O'Connell dwelt. The cabin was
illuminated 70 brightly that it looked
like . spot of FIRE upon the bog; the
rooms in the house we're crowded; and
without, dark figures ~ thick as bees in
swarming time. Miles Doughty, clad
rather less gaudily than when l first be.
held him, moved amidst the throng with
bottle and glass, pausing now and again
to look ADDITIONALLY Ut Norah, who,
decorated with her bridal flowers, was
dancing with one of the straw men who
had come to do honor to her marriage
feast. When the dance was ended she
came over and stood beside me.
"Norah," I whispered, "do you re-
member that night when / heard you
singing songs upon the sandsf"
Her face flashed brightly upon me,
then it grew grave,-then her eyes filled
Will U0&Ibs
"My DEAR" 1 added, al never meant
to pain you. / only want you to sing q
sequel to those songs tonight"
She laughed lightly, then she spoke
rapidly in Irish, and merrily sang the
well-known lines:-
"Oh, the marriage. the marriage,
With leve and my bouchal for me;
The ladies that ride in . carriage
Might envy my marriage 70 me-"
Then she was laughingly carried off to
join In another dance.
! Joined in the fun till midnight;
then, though the merrinent was still in
its height, / quietly left the house and
hurried home. As l left the cabin /
stumbled across q figure which wa hid
ing behind aturf.stack. By the light of
my burning turf I recognized the feat
urers of Owen MacGrath. He skunk
away when he saw me, and never since
that night has been seen in Storport.-
BeIgrav'd.