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

| chill IL by refusal.
| "You could not go alone, Barbara and am
bound 70 get over to Clondolane."
/ Tho Corporal will escort me-"
"The orderly Of the late Captain French ~
| eyes auntie; Bayard in mufti."
"a nd do you mean to tell me, Barbara, that
| you would go trsmping across the country with
o disbsoded trooper, who may be anything for
/ aogbt you know to the contrsryr
..i'll go bail for Mister Joyce" cried Mrs
| Finn botl.; "bnt, lest the young lady would be
| put out or seeing the big house, my niece
Biddy will 60 along with her. She's slip OF
| sixteen"
Mrs. Finn, you are a darling" cried Bar
| bars, jumping to her feet. "Corporalp
The Corporal star ted to the door, where he
! stood grim and erect as the skeleton of the
Roman sentine l discovered at Pompeii.
will you escort me to Curraghgisss, and
leave the Galway Findicator till this evening
10 Curragh glass; mis-, ," and the Corporal
looked perplexsd, tine outside lie"
"It's the outside I want to see," interrupted
the girl almost impatiently"
.Aoythiog yoo wish me to do inside ms
orders I'll do; but it's long walk for the
likes of you, and-and there's not much to
see"
Who's going to walk it - demanded Mrs.
Finn somewhat SHARPLY. Here, Mickey, run
aod catch the mare, aud yoke her to my own
car this minute Ron, and don't let the grass
be growi o & up between yonr toes"
Tnus adrnopished, the shook headed youth
bounded over o high wall, bounded across
bog, boo nded over another wall, bounded over
O the back of an unsuspeoting steed that was
pesoefnlIy engaged ia nibbling such stray
patches of grass as dared Peep up anon get the
tauge of goese and fern. The car WAS quickly
bcough oo "a 10 backed vehicle with pou
derons well, and wheels not free from the sus-
piciou Of hay bound spokes. Biddy Finn, all
smiles and bushes, face and bair shining from
the recent application OF soap, and a.tired in
her last Moss" garments. sidled 10 the
up With you, Biddy, up with you, miss!
The mare won't stAad," cried Mickey.
"a IN ned ~ IN
the car, Is 'Goy springiDg beside her, the Coz
poral stjttly asceadea 81 the other side, aud
with .Ivd wboca, as though in parsat of
6pgfoS, the "goesoon" violently applied a
biroh-JS& t. the sOuewbat anwiling mare,
aoo started il gag course en- route to Cur
raghE!nss.
raj, ead Bsrbara French when they had pro-
ceeded little wsy. II want to beaC every
thing"
Carraghgass YVES Barb sEs's hero OF romance
she imagined him tall. dark, gloomy, with the
melancholy aspect of Edgar of Ravens wood. He
was her constant theme of conversation. even
in that far away convent in Belgium, whore
she would talk about him. FOR hours TO her
contifsut, TOW imagining MIN returning to
the old ANCESTRAL home laden with a lao of
rupees-sIe tcould have it that Tom Ffrerch
went to India like Give aud Hasting s-every
coin of which was to be expended IN repur-
chasing the family estates and in re-estsbli5b
lug the feadal spleudor that reigued in the
French stroD gh old in the ol6en time. Again
she would picture him a broken-down man
with dead shes at his heart, the bitter CUP
of life drained TO the dregs, dragging his woEE-
ont frame to Curragh glass-to die. Barbara
was warm, imaginative, enthusiastic, with O
passionate faith in all shat appesled directly
to her eympathies. Size had fresh, unworn
heart, with its eprings of emotion a yet IN
sounded, yet untouched, and to which d
al sdow bsre all the semblarce of a dream, q
tear oil the sAVor CT lpxuC2. Generous, i'm
pnsivo, acting in the belief tina, Coda Gun
Ali inc CyR tC n q fIIl
exceptions, thab everyone WAS good, Barbara
went upon her way, singing like a Young
bird, tiuIid "a young bird yet free az young
bird. She had begnlled her aunt into paying
s. visit of state family soms twelve miles
distant, solely for the purpose of getting
peep st C7rr>ghglase even Gin the far eff"
The accidental meeting with Corporal Joyce
caused Der tS-maka desperate attempt at a
personal Inspection Of her Castle of Romance,
and her childish delight at having so far &C
complished heC object scarcely recogn zad
bounds.
Tue Corporal nothing loath, leaned respect
folly across the car, and during the renal oder
Ffrepch, all more less of daring and ad
venturouS character Fording o mountain
stream, he pointed out where the young mas
ter, then bat a boy, had plunged in to cave the
life of drowning lamb at the imminent risk
of his own. turn of the road, and the Cor
poral stopped the car in order to show Miss
Ffrench where their mutual hero-he was just
as much Of o hero to Joyce as to Bsrbsrs-ead
taken the "big lep" against an English f1ioer
who had bragged at the dinner table about his
own equestrian performances; Here Master
Tom" had landed ten pound trout, there he
had shot dc zsn snipe at an almost impossible
range end under the most perplexiDg condi-
tiops. Further on the Corporal marked the
exact spot where the heir Of Currsgb glsss had
stopped Major Bodkio's runaway. saving che
Msjor end his daughter from Inevitable death.
Every hundred yards, as tina car neared the
wood, enabled the Corporal to sing the praises
of his absent lege, and as the vehicle passed
to the grass grown drive Barbara found her
self in post s.iOn of very detailed and truth
ful sketch OF the career of Tom French up to
the period Of his absentug himself for foreign
parts unknown"
'sAnd 80 this is Currsgh glass" exclaimed the
girl, clasping her hands as she gazsd reverently
at tho splendid old house, its red bricks stand
ing in glorious contrast to the grim, dark
woods and the cold, gcay sky.
"Yts, miss"
OTIS noble building"
"Tbe finest in CoDnemara, miss
Fit for prince"
1.-THE family is descended, miss, from the
! I. - - a.