The Irish standard., 1886-07-10

NlS. NOe11SA1y IOO. loI soIc Tic CtttlSe
of all this. I can't fling copper to c
beggar, but she reports it pound
Upon my word it's d pretty thing to be
taken for 6; simpleton at the age of &C
years; hunaph mighty. pretty thing
indeed
81 only limited at your generosity
mean your goodness-in-a -in-why,
in giving fair prices for Mary's pictures
that's ALL.
'tTair prices
eyes; and 1 thought you wouldn't be
angry with me for saying that.'
stOf course I wouldn't; but you said
nothing Of the kind--not g syllable. - re-
piled Uncle jerry, softening down q
little, notwithstanding.
"Because you Wouldn't wait to heao
me,'' said Kate; "I certainly think it's
very good and kind i'll you to buy these
pictures from the poor girl when you
don't want them yourself, I say that,
MI. Gairkie, and 1 shall always say so.''
"B,1t I do want then1-I want all she
can paint for twelvemonth to come:
and I wouldn't give one Of them for
twice the price they cost me. Do you
hear that, now: Miss Petershan? Not
for twice the price"
20, well,'' said Kate, l1unloring the
whirn, s'that accounts for it, Them
"Certainly. You thought all the
time, + Isuppose, I bought these pictures
as an act OF charity. He, help he
chuckled, endeavoring all the while to
belle his own heart; "when I buy, Kate,
have an eye to business
| Kate raised UP hers in appeal against
the sacsilege, but dared not venture a
word.
"And that's the real reason, Kate, +
DON'T visit at the lighthouse, " said Uncle
jerry, holding his head, for his con-
science srnote him for bearing false Wit
ness against himself; ''that's the reason,
precisely,'
%, very we'll, said Kate; 'I'm salts
fed if yonr are
I must acknowledge it's selfish mo-
tive" continued Uncle Jerry; "but I
have been 81 man of the world, and
doubtless my feelings are hardened by
| long intercourse with it,
''Hardened! And so you won't visit
at the lighthouse, lest Roger should
never come with his pictures again?;'
Precisely. Ii the old man saw me
once there, lie should never come knock
ing at my door again. He's a wonder
tul man, that Roger, and I think I
should niss him very much
He's q faithful creature,' replied
Kate; like the ivy, he clings Oh TO the
last when the old house falls into ruins
he falls with it
sHe is very obliging to me. at all
events, said Uncle Jerry, to make me
the first offer. But keep the secret to
yourself, Kate (ana he whispered the
words in her ear,) don't breathe it to a
soul for your life.
Never fear; I'll not discover
'And now, can you tell ME, has Mary
Lee any friends or relatives in OF about
Rathmullen?'
sNO. not that I know Of.
you're not certain?'
Well. as certain as I can be. without
actually hearing her say SC"
'fThen must have seen her ghost.''
Her ghost, forsooth! where?'
in Rathrau]len graveyard,'
o. some one like her you SOW. She
has no relatives inferred there. The
Lees, you know, are absolute strangers
in this part of the country
so understood; and yet, upon my
word, I saw her there, at two different
times. as plainly as / see you know. On
both occasions it was late in the even
ing, end she passed within few yards
of me, apparently on her way to the
shore,'
You must have been mistaken. Mary
never goes there: I should hear Of it, if
she did. Sometimes, in calm evenings,
she and Lanty Hanlon take g run up
the Tough together in the jolly boat, but
I never heard of her visiting che grave
yard
During this little conversation between
Uncle Jerry and Kate, DR.. Henshaw
and Mrs. Willoughby were busily en-
gagged talking on various subjects, and
particularly those relating to Scotch and
English society. Being OF an old aris-
tocratic family herself. the good lady
was very fond Of speaking Of her an
cestors, dating them back as far as the
Conquest, and of the various noble
houses all over England and Scotland,
with which she had become connected
during long succession of years. DR..
Henshaw, on the ether hand, coming as
he did from an old Puritan stock, and
still proud OF bis grim old warrior