The Irish standard., 1886-06-19

name u1uSelI, cdu'b tell--Dut yo MAy
depend on it Lambton's the man.
Perhaps So"
80, feen doubt OF it; and yell see
that too, when Lanty comes back
"What, Lanty Hanlon?"
Say, Lanty Hanlon? ye heard OF
him. [ suppose.
'sAnd saw him, too. Don't you re-
member to have recommended him to
me two or three weeks ago, as trusty
messenger to send on certain import
ant business to Derry?''
'.And ye sent him?"
| Certainly"
| "Well?o
"Well, he broke trust at the very out
set"
'LantY Hanlon!''
SAY, Lanty Hanlon. Instead Of cross:
ing the lough at Doughbeg, he strolled
down the shore to BallYmastocker, to
see cockfght, and missed the tide"
so. feth as to that said Else; II
wudn't put it past HIM, He's the very
old lad himself in regard to cock fight
ing"
Eyes; but he was made we'll aware Of
the urgency OF the message, and should
have postponed his personal gratifca-
tion till his return"
"Postponed, indeed! In troth, Master
Randall, he'd postpone goin to heaven,
if there was cookfght within five miles
of him; that an huntin is his wakeness,
poor fellow. An what excuse did he
make when he came back?''
He never came back to make any.
Instead of that, he sent me word he was
in the hand of the police or beating a
gamekeeper ana would see me as soon
as he got clear.'
.''Humph!'' said ELSE, ''that's another
OF his wakenesses.'
! ''It's rather an odd kind of weak
ness said Randall, laughing.
"Well, il is natural for him, poor fell
low, anyway; the whole breed Of
him hated gamekeepers for five genera
| tions back. And so the man was too
many for him?''
''No, he made his escape then, but
the police caught him next day. 1t ap-
pears on his return he crossed the noun
tians with his dogs, and met Lord Lett
rims gamekeepers, who gave him chase.
Two Of them he distanced, and the
! the third he led into some lonely spot,
beat him there soundly, and then left
him gagged with his own handkerchief,
and tied neck and heels to an old haw-
thorn tree beside we'll, where he was
found next morning, half dead from cold
and hunger"
"It's just like him. said Else, ''for
the villain is niver ont of mischief But
still he's as true as steel when ye keep
him away from timptation.'
"And how is that to be done, pray?
Will he not meet with as much tempta-
tion on his way to the United States and
back, as he does here in the parish of
Clondavadoc?''
'sNot he,'' replied Else; 'tI'll trust
him for that. The minute he finds IFS
On Mary Lees affairs he's goin, the sar-
pint himself wudn' t timpt him. "But, y
she added, correcting herself, 'tI'm net
sure yit whittier he'll have to go at all Or
not; may be somethin might turn up
to save the journey and the expinse too.
It's we'll to be prepared, any way, you
know"
stCertainly. But is Lanty SO devoted
to Mary as you say?"
"He'd lay down his life for her every
day il the year. There's not a llvin
thing he loves like her in the whole
worl.''
"Possible?"
"Didn't ye know it? He cud sit
lookin' at her from mornin to night, and
niver be dry or hungry. And It's a
mighty queer notion, too, he has about
her."
'sWhat'f that?"
why, he thinks it i'd be a sin to love
ner as he'd love any other girl"
| elbow SOP"
''Bekase she's so good, he says. And
it's all come of q drame he had onst
about the Blissed Virgin.-Och, och, y
said Else, suddenly interruptine herself,
san many purity drame I had OF her
myself in my young days, when ! ust to
wear her scappler, and gather the May
flowers for her alther; but them things
is all oyer now. can niver drame Or
pray to her again, for the black thoughts
druv her image out Of my heart for iver-
more. And Mary Lee, too, the poor
child, whin she spakes to me some
times of an evenin, s1ttin out here on
the hill side, about the marcy of Christ,
and the bright heavens above, al the
goodness of God to them that repent,