Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-11

purity sight there in the tall room, ma'am,
wild the lights dashin', an the music, al. ths
music Just foated, swelled an throobet one
minute like it ~ud lift your hearts right out
Of all sorrow, an then il was a-sobbin' an
surzin' ike the soul that is in the depths OF
pain and despair. maam- Il makes one so
glad sometimes, such music does, that nothing
but tears can tell your gladness, an so sad
too for il brings back all the sad things that
have ever come into your life; so II was with
me, ma am, an then the strange dresses OF
the b'ys and cirrus There were kings an
auanes an knights of the old days, an nsn
women, an gypsies an the saints know what
An there was one tall man among the lot
that somehow I'd noticed from the first, an
I'd noticed too, that when wint on the lure
to dance that tall man he would get nissef
right in the same set He hadn't any foolish
coshtume only be wore a mask Ike the rest
Of en-
~ was Just going to dance a maturity wild
Patrick Mcclure, an I've never danced a
rnazurky nor 4 polky wild any man IN this
country, when he came up TO Us, an he
touched nv arrum, an says he: w ho are ye,
amy wayf
AN says /: Who are your
Then says be: Don't be triain'. / saw
woman in a gownd like that onet, an she ha
the same swate voice as yerself, an she
danced just as yerself, Ike the fairies dance
on the sod Of ould Ireland, an I've looked
for her an longed for her night an day
since, an | know if you are that one your
own heart Will tell you who am, says he.
AN right there, ma'am, Wild Patrick Nc
CURE a shtandin' beside me, an crookln MS
elbow in the elegantest way for me TO go on
the dance wild him, what did do! Why,
rna'am, | Just cried out: oh, Tim HaleyP
says l.
AN oh, Katie McCartyn says he.
AN there, savia' your presence, ma am,
AM right in the sight OF kings au quanes an
lords an ladies an Day an Night an Summer
an Winter an the whole qnare lot OF EN-.
tore the mask off my face, an he tore the
mask off his face, an he put MS arrums
around me an kissed me in way that wud
have brought tears to your ewes, an 1t did TO
mine, as Que wud kiss the lips that they had
thought wud never spake lovin' words to
them again. He was my own true lover,
Inaam, that | parted wid in Ireland two
long years ago, an niver line nor sign
from him since then, though I'd prayed to
the saints night an day.
How did 1t happen, hatlef
"Oh, maam, we don't rightly know, but
he sent his letters i'll the care of his cousin,
ma'am, well-he WIS a bit in love wild
me the cousin, more than | knew, and so his
letters nver came to me at all, ut all, an
cud not write to him, not knowing where IN
all this great country he might be. Yis, the
letters was intercepted, just as I've read
about in story books, an we both wild achin'
hearts the time.
And he knew you by the dressF
ayes, ma'am, the night before he left Ire
land wore that dres. at little party, an it
happened that never wore it after that till
last night 1t was in the bottom of my
chest, an wheniver | looked at it it just
seemed like the ghost Of all my old happiness
shtared me in the face an | could not put
the gown on me back An | wore it that
night because it seemed it was just as good
masking as amy. 1t was the coshtume of
happiness an it hid the real Katie McCarty,
so | thought; but the saints be praised it
brought me great joy.
mo, ma am, he didn't know | was in this
country didn't come to find him. I'd not
follow amy man, but came because all the
family came, an there was no reason why |
should stay behind"
You have perfect faith that your lover
has told you the TRUTH" | ventured.
How her ey.s flashed THE truth, We sayl
VIII a man tell lies to the woman he loves,
dye thinki An will a man that does not
love a woman remember the very gowld she
wears when she babe him good-by! VIII he
know her through her mask by the beatin'
an throbbin of his own hearth Yis, be
heve livery word he says, thank God"
stood rebuked before her simple faith and
said 81 am glad in your gladness, as am
sure you know"
"Cud ever have told this, maam, if l had
not known the warm, lovin' heart Of youl
Why, I've felt many a time that ye knew
that my my heart ached, and that ye was
sorry for me. o, there's something, and a
quare thing it is, that tells we better nor
words when We have found a friend an Katie
McCarty knows well the signs"
When | said to the head of the house. that
evening, Didn't tell you that there was
some romance hidden in the pathos of that
girls eyes," he responded:
II believe you did, and am afraid you
would rather lose the tidiest, most capable
domestic we have had in many day than
have your intuitions unveriiied. Own that
am right, now, aren't you glad"
Pm glad, | replied, that | am unselfish
enough to rejoice in sister woman's happi-
ness, even If it does take her out of my
kitchen I'm very glad that the masquerade
brought about such sweet reality"
Upon the whole" responded the head Of
tue house, thoughtfully, $50 am l.n-Car-
lotta Perry in Good Housekeeping