The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07

| Just three weeks later that was told one
morning that woman was at the door
wanting TO speak to me. 1t was Herlihy's
4 wife, a gaunt care-worn- looking creature,
| who kept her head covered up in the hood
| of her cloak, and spoke in hoarse, fright
| ened voice.
"Sir, your honor" she began, ''niver say
the word to Dan that / come here. Sure,
I'd have come before, but wouldn't be
let by him." She paused, and then went
on hurriedly:
There was person said you were bit
| by our dog that time YOU rode into Biudth
| yesterday three weeks. Your honor. 81"
she said, coming a step nearer, whatever
way the dog was that day, the day afther
he was runnin' mad through the country,
and the polls couldn't kill him till he had
three of Mahony's cows bitten, and him.
self half dead with the boys hunting
him"
"How do you know he was mad?"
Gre yistherday was the twenty-frst
day with the cows, and wan OF thim's
dead already"
"Who was the person said 1 was Bit
temp"
| She began to cry:
''Oh that I'd have to say of my own
husband! Dan seen it, your honor! He
was inside in the house, and he seen you
| tying up your hand, and he never let on a
word till after the cows dying, an thin he
says, 'There'll be more that way ! says
/ he. why So? saws and he says
l cut her story short. My temper is
none of the best, and the less | heard
about Dan Herlihy the better.
Il am obliged to you tor your trouble"
I said, for after all she had come long
way 70 tell me of what she believed to be
| my danger. Here is something for you,
and go round to the cook and get some
| dinner. And then YOU may 60 home and
| tell YOUR BLACKBOARD of a husband that
am quite well and mean to keep so, and
that he'll hear more of me before he's
done with me-"
With that put couple of shilliugs in
| her hand and turned my back upon her.
She took the money as if she only half
| liked doing so, and went slowly on round
the house to the yard. while / stood on
my hall door-steps and began to think
over what she had just told me.
My house is built high up on the hill
side and there is a fine view from the
front of it. You look straight out over
| rough. tumbling hills TO the sea, and the
shannon lies TO the south. cutting the
country in two like the bright blade OF
knife. There was hardly touch of white
in the blue sky that April morning. Very
high up there was a lark singing; in the
lower levels of the air plover were wheel
ing and whisting; the wind brought the
soft spring music of the bleating OF lambs
10 me in purring waves of sound. 1t
shook the fuchsia hedge that was sprout-
ing at the foot OF the garden and brought
the crisp sheaths OF the elm tree buds
iuttering down on to the ground.
suppose / noticed these things then,
or should not be able 10 feel them so
clearly now-but l do not remember
doing so. stared at the purple mark on
my right hand where the wound made by
the dogs teeth had been. 1t was too late
now for any of the ordinary rough-and-
ready cures; and the probability seemed
to be that as / had kept we'll up to this,
nothing was going TO happen to me and
need take no precautionary measures. In
deed, only for the COWS ! don't believe ]
would have thought twice about it, but
their dying certainly gave me bit OF
shake; and the talk | had with the dis
pensary doctor not long ago about this NJ.
Pasteurs cure for hydrOphObia required
to me Though TO tell the truth, little
Considine said he had no such great opin-
ion OF it) and had been feeling unsettled
and restless for some time; in fact. put
ting one thing and another together, |
thought the best thing | could do was to
start off for Paris as soon as | could.
do not mean TO pretend that had or
have much faith in this system of Pas
tours. | had heard only very little of it
from DR.. Considine, and had read about
as much in the newspapers, and / think /
am not disposed to believe new things
very readily / am bit OF fatalst, and
don't hold much with doctors. If you
live for seven or eight years in one OF the
remotest parts OF Ireland, your intellectual
part gets very sodden; and, being bred up
for priest is bad training for the mind.
had TO swallow so MANY queer stories OF
the old-fashiondd miracles when I was a
boy that had no capacity for new ones
it is as much as | can do TO hold on to the
beliefs that were taught me at school; and
after all, with all the trouble they gave me
to believe them, they do not seem to make
much difference in my life or any one
else's.
The doctors and the priests do their
best-first the one and then the other;
but hereabouts l think the "mountainy
men" who see little of either. get on Just
as we'll as the rest. However, all ibis is
neither here nor there-as they say-and
to come back to where [ started from,
WlttutI DSii6Ntu IN L dSteuT OF no, IL
was we'll worth taking the o1-charce OF
following his treatment, when it involved
getting away from Carrig Frass. Even If
| were going to die in a week, would be
glad to live that last week in Paris.
There was little Motel toward the lower
end of the Rue des Saints Peres that /
knew very we'll. Ny only friend in Paris,
outside the walls OF the seminary, had
lived there. he was an American art
student, a distant connection of mine
through some lOng-sinee emigFated rela-
tive, and my rare holidays had always
been spent with him.
It did not look the same place to me yes
terday afternoon, when arrived cold and
tired after my long journey. There is a
new proprietor, and the house is all
changed; the big pots with prickly shrubs
in them no longer block up the doorway
and | missed old Hector, the big dog who
used to sprawl across the narrow hall. |
looked idly down the list with the names
OF the inmates, which hung, each name
against its respective key, in the bureau,
with an illogical hope that after eight years
wilbur G.. Collins" might still be found
opposite KEY No. 90, du cinQuiems: but a
name so outlandish that 1 remember it
still-"Idenka Norschak"-was what |
saw. | don't even know if it is a mans
or a woman's.
II was dark gloomy evening The rain
and wind that had beaten against the
windows of Carrig Frass all that long