News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-18

suggestion. In a few monlehIs ne STOOD
before a portly, rubicund man, who
nodded to him kindly.
"I'm looking for me wife, yer honor"
said Connor. ssand I can't find her."
"Perhaps she has gone ashore" said
the captain.
81 bade her wait" said Connor.
sWomen do not always do as they
are bid" said the captain.
"Nora would" said Connor; ''but
maybe she was left behind. Maybe she
didn't come. I somehow think she
did not"
At the name Nora. the captain
started. In a moment he asked:
"What is your name ?"
"Pat Connor," said the man.
"And your wife's name Nora ?"
"That's her name, and the boy with
her is Jamesy, yer honor" said connor.
The captain looked at Connor's
friends, they looked at ne captain;
Then he said, huskily ~
"Sit down, my man, I've got some
thing to tell you."
.'She's left behind ?" said Connor.
eShe sailed with u.s." said the cap
tain.
"Where is she ?' asked Connor.
The captain made no answer.
"My man." he said, eve all have our
trials; God sends them. Yes-Nora
started with US.
Connor said nothing. He was looking
at the captain now, white to his lips.
'It's been sickly season" said the
captain. "We had illness aboard-~the
cholera, You know that? ?"
81 didn't" said Connor. "They kept
it from me-"
"We didn't want to frighten him."
said one in half whisper.
''You know how long we lay at Quar-
antine ?"
"The ship I came in did that" said
Connor. "Did ye say Nora went
ashore2 Ought to be looking for her,
captain ?"
"Many died." went on the captain
'tmany children. When we were hall
way there your boy was taken sick
''Jamesy," gasped Connor.
ellis mother watched him night and
day." said the captain, "and we did al
we could, but at last he died-only one
of many. There were five buried that
day. But it broke my heart to see the
mother looking out upon the water.
Its his father I think of, said she; 'he's
longing to see poor Jamesy.
Connor groaned.
"Keep up, if you can, my man." said
the captain. ST wish any one had it tc
tell rather than I. That night Norf
was taken i'll also, very suddenly. Sh'
grew worse fast. In the morning sh
called me to her. Tell Connor I diet
thinking of him, she said, and tell hin
to meet me- And, my man, God hell
you, she never said anything more; il
an hour she was gone.
Connor had risen. He stood up, try
ing to steady himself, looking at Tn
captain with his eyes dry as two stones
Then he turned % hts frieudae
"Iave got my death, boys" he said
and then dropped to the floor like a log
They raised him and bore him away
In an hour he was at home on the llttl
bed which had been made ready TO
Nora, weary with her long voyage
There at last he opened his eyes. Oh
Mr.. Bawn bent over him; he had beel
summoned by the news, and the roon
was full of Connor's fellow-workmen.
"Better, Connor ?" asked the oil
man.
ga dale" said Connor. "Its ais
now; I'll be with her soon. And 100
ye, masther, I've learnt one thing-do
is good. He wouldn't let me br1n
Nora to me, but he's taking me over t
her-and Jamesy-over the river; don
you see it, and her standing on the othe
side to welcome me"-
And with these words Connor stretcne
out his arms. Perhaps he did see MOI
heaven only knoWs-and so died.