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shrines, her hands and eyes raised in
mute supplication for the crippled
mother who sat by her side,. and I
thought I had never seen finer picture
of religion in my life.''
"Well, we'll, DEAR" calculated Else;
II don't know anything about such
picthers now; I ust once, but that times
gone. But, as 1 was sayin, since he
drained that drame of the Blessed Vir-
gin (God forgive me for mentioning her
nancy and Mary Lee, he can't think of
one without the ither, and livery wish OF
Mary's is like command to him from
heaven" 1.
"How very extraordinary said Ran
dali.
"The drame?"
"No, but that every ones so peculiar
ly affected by the words and looks Of
this girl"
'Well, it's jist the same with the
children she taches the Christen docth-
rim to down there in her little chapel
undher the rock; they'd pit their very
heads undher her feet, an what's quar-
est of all, there's dog in the town
there below that tears livery body he can
get hoult of-the crossest animal iver
run on four feet; we'll, that dog, the
first minute he seen her, crooched at her
feet, and kissed her hand, jist as if she
fed him with it all his lifetime; and liver
since, as soon as he sees her, he runs
away whinin afther her, and niver
quits her company till he leaves her at
the Lighthouse gate.''
'sAnd old Drake, too, is very fond Of
her, observed Randall.
ssHoot! as for Drake, replied Else,
s'Drake can read her countenance bet
ther nor you or I can. He knows who
she likes an disn't like the minute he
sees them. Sure, when she lay sick
last halliday, he niver left her room night
or day, nor niver as much as tasted
mate kind for whole week, till Roger
had TO lift him on chair by her bed
side and let her feed him with her own
hands, Roger svears he saw the tears
fallin down the dogs cheeks, when he
looked up in her face, and TUX the food
from her fingers
sShe's too good and too pure for me,
Elise" said Randall, thoughtf,1lly; Sand
fear such creature could never be
happy with the hereto and revolutionist
I ann
"You'll not be either long, if she
ma1ries ye,'' said Else: ''take my word
for it,
''And why not?"
80, the Lord luck t'ye Master Randall;
sh'd make Catholic iv ye in three
weeks 'ithout one words spakin."
"Indeed! by what means, pray?''
"Why, she'd make her religion look
so good and holy in yer eyes. jist by her
livery day ways, that ye cudn't help low
ing it yersrlf. And as for the rest, she
loves her ould country as well as you,
Randall Barry, woman an all as she is,
an Wild suffer as willingly too, may be,
if all came to all. But hush! didn't I
hear some noise outsider"
"No--it's only the storm whistling in
the thatch'' -
"Well, it's time, anyway, ye'd have
something to ate afther yer long race;;'
and rising from the 'creepie, she pZo-
duced cold fowl from the recesses Of a
little cupboard concealed in the thick
| ness of the cabin wall, and laid it on
the table. Then STOPPING. she raised
up the hearth-stone, and disappeared in
the dark opening beneath with surpris-
ing agility for woman of her years.
The action, strange as twas, did not ap-
pear to excite the young mans curiosity
in the least; he glanced merely at Elise
as she descended, and then leaning his
head on his hand, composed himself to
wait patiently for her return.
! AS he sat there by the table in the
dim light of the rush candle, there was
nothing about his person worthy Of
special notice. His figure was light
and graceful, his lirabs we'll moulded
and muscular, and his height, if we
could Judge fairly in the posture he had
taken, little above the middle size. His
long black hair fell in disorder over the
low collar of his blue jacket, from the
breast pockets of which the butt of 8
pair of travelling pistols still peeped out.
His cravat, as we have said already, was
knotted loosely in front, sailor fashion,
ank revealed neck by far too fair for a
seafaring man: and one it would have
puzzled detective officer to reconcile
with his general appearance. But if
there was nothing striking in his appear
ance, there was that in his handsome
face which gave character ard interest
to the whole mana shade of quiet
melancholy, which at once impressed
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