The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1879-01-19

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| some English upstart who would nee 1t for I
couple of months when the grouse were on thu
| hills or the hounds hunting past the gates
| neverl Mr. Anthony Bodkin, the family soil
citcr, proposed some such arrangement, only t.
repent his temerity.
Anything like the look young Frecch gave
bSheld Il Ss black as
Doctor Hagerty. OF Clifden, over q humminG
tumbler of potcen punch.
To Barney Joyce WAS Curraghglas formally
handed over by its youthful owner.
Joyce, cannot bear to stop here. Ny
mother gone. my friends-bah What needy
wretch has friendsi This place is too foil OF
memories, too full Of regrets, for me. As long
as live I'll keep it intact If die you'll hear
CT my death. Till then, Barney, you will re-
side here. Allow no human being inside the
walls. Ispesk to you now as il ware my
dead father and your captain, Corporal. No
person shall pry or peep into the old home.
Keep my room always ready for me. You will
never know the m oment may return. Give
the fruit to Sister Mary Agnes, of the Clares,
who attended my darling mother With go much
devotion. Let the convent take it ALL and ell
the flowers l have made arrangements with
Mr.. Sutolffe. the mausger of the Hibernian
pounds every month. You are provided for,
NY faithful friend" wripgiug the hand of the
Corporal, who stood erect as if on parade.
God bless you. joyce q now, do not know
whittier myself You Viii not hear from me.
bot, please Heaven, you'll see me some day or
other. Brace up, old hero! Remember Balak'
lava =
Ten years-oh the magic of ten long years
-glided away in summer suns and wirtry
winds, and the heir of Currag glass made no
sign. The Corporal as he was invsris6iy
sly led in the village of Fsrranfore, held the
fort, obey ing the instructions given him with
military infexibiiity. 10 vain did relations
and friends of the absent heir apply for adnis-
sion to Curraghglass; in vain did ar. Anthony
Bodkin, as legal adviser to the family, irs;st
upon maxim, a search for some papers OF 81
legged Importance; in vain did tontist offer vel.
low gold for peep into the old house. for it
was tsked If at the ri "a of the ''B-oied Mack
erep sud at all the sheheens foe miles around;
in vain did swell fishermen from Biliioa-
hinah, ouce the property OF Dick Martin. but
now in the hands of a LOGdon company, crsve
shelter from storm or an abiding place adjacent
TO tho salmon pool, rot q thousand yards from
the raonaior, Tee Corporal turned deaf ear
TO entreatF, gave scOTn TO bride ond contempt
to ;sat terfuge. lis resided in small apart.
ment in the rear giving upon the GrassErown
coGrt yard and, b=tlg q bachelor, lived alone.
Every morning he busted Master Ton. - room,
raked the gravel opposite tle ent7ance, and
b arrished up the brass knockers. Every day
he narcled, stiff and erect a. though in the
FarraD fore TO usk for letters that never
cnme.
ANY letters for Corpoval Joycef' salasiog
sire. foSerty, the postms'ress, military fash
None to day. CoEporsl," was the iuvariah!c
reply, with considerable emphasis on tho ''tC
day" Thereby gliding the - morrow with
hope.
The Corporal would then march dom the
village streat 10 tae F!rench Arms, "a quaint
little hosiery glowing IN white~hsh and gcl-
mer butler at the big house.. Belong ag as
this lady did TO the ff;epoEes by viCt"e "t her
IuGrriage, rjtI b " tAe Corporal Was "raU9-
tonicl to EEIend a 4iit's, uld over ~ d'scCsa
tho !niure % GnrraG hSlass. The good laLy-
- bO, IL mus' b tIld, onatrtsiued aneaking
regard for thia sup. kissed, Eri2Z GraEoop,
J y co,-was nboUJ forty, and ever received
bIU, nctapbcr,cally speaking, with open
arms, placing the Galway ItHGicd,Or, just ar
rived b. tue long car, at his spectai dtspo9a',
and ever SO LITTLE drop of tho crHytnre' to
help him or his bomewd ard march. hlrs Finn
went 20 for Us to open negotiation+ through
Pat Muivey, who drew The 'lobster car" to
We purr 20 secure for the dele2tYtion OF the
Corporal weekly copy of the 3rmy and Ntfry
Ga;eite This delcats mission rrium.
phautlv accomplished b. Par, who got in Go.
Mayo RrtlAs, then quartered in "eetport end,
to the CorpoIars intense satisfaction, this
Koran of tie gentlemen of tue army, became
toe absolute property of the faithful dragon,
who beguiled many of his lonely hours at Car
ragpGtass in spelling out its manifold aad, to
him, absorb contents.
One dark and gloomy November day. abont
ten years after the departure of Tom French
"for parts unknown" Corporal Joyce strobe
in to the snug little parlor of the French
Arms.
any loGt6ES lO-uSyJ' OoJCc 6ShSu
the glowing ilandladV, buxom, fat, fair, and
forty. She had put this query every day for
the last six years.
Not to-day, Mrs. Finn"
We'll, mebbe you'll get them to morrow,
Corporal"
IT'S not unlikely, mA'sm."
Gods good"
The Corporal, drawing a wooden stool TO the
fire, 9sllantly assisted Mes. Finn in 6nging 8
few sods of turf on the smopidering pile and
10 sweepiug up the white outlying ashes with
the wing OF goose.
ITS q lonesome sort Of day. Corporal" nb
served the widow, extracting the Galway Yin
dictator from hidden Recess behind the win
dow shntter.
at Is, ms'am. 1t was this sort of day on
the tenth of December, eighteen hundred and
sixty.one."
"That was the day"
THAT Master Tom left for parts unknown"
interrupted the Corporal.
Il was dreaming about him last night, Cor
poral," eaid Mrs. Finn, seating herself on a
three-leEged stool at the other side Of the Gre.
Il ~se DIRE amin Of his father"
And he charge" casting her eyes upwards
at smoke stained illustration of the Ride of
Death, cut from the Illustrated London Ne,rs