The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-10-03

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his hne. open face and frank, honest
nature made him . general favoriteL
He came Of race Of smiths, his
thesa4 grand father md greatz0sspAs
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side. the claiming FORGE Being .
good workman. and owning the house
be lived in. Pat WAS fairly well on. He
and Kitty had been schoolmates and
i play In childhood. and when
Kitty's mother died. when she was
almost q child. Mrs. Riordan had ex-
tended her motherly love to the moth
Eerless girl; and now, when she was
laid aside By rheumatism. Kitty repaid
the. kindness By many Loving. deeds.
Pat loved the girl truly, and would
have risked his life any day to save
her from i'll; but though every time
he had scen her since her fathers
death he had Iongcd 10 ask her to
| share his home, yet somehow the
words stuck in his throat. and the de-
sire to say them only nadc him APP
pear more awkward in his sweetheart's
presence.
/ A few months before, Mr.. Michael
O'Doherty, only son and heir OF Mrs
i 0'Doherty, Of "the shop of Sham
rock-dale. had come home from serving
his apprenticeship In Dublin, and, OF
course, having had the advantage OF
two years residence in the Irish me-
tropolis, he was far removed from the
ordinary stay-at-home young men of
the village. He wore checked suit
OF very pronounced style, and his
watch-chain certainly glittered,
though gold it was not. Altogether,
taken as whole, Mr.. O'Doherty was
a very fine young man.
Not long after his return home Mr.
/ ODoherty began to cast admiring
4 glances towards Kitty Maloncy. whom
he pronounced the bcst-looking girl in
Shamrock-dale, though she was only a
servant.
| He began by paying some ,compli-
ments to Kitty in tho most approved
1 Dublin style, but he-was- rather.
amazed at her witty replies. which
she delivered with promptness that
left his rather slow brains leagues be-
| hind. He admired her more for her
eleverncsss however, and resolved, II
| possible. to win her; but he was be-
fhind time In his resolution. as we
have seen. Kitty was won though not
yet claimed.
Now. Patrick Riordan. when he
compared himself with O'Doherty.
sunk several inches lower i'm his own
estimation. and when Mrs, Moriaety.
the village gossip. told HIM that
mister O'Doherty had said Miss Ma
loney was far an away the |purtiest
girl in Shamrock-dale," poor Pats
heart seemed to descend into his
boots, and in consequence his visits to
Kitty became less frequent and were
generally taken up by long-drawn.
signs and sorro%ful chances that al
most droyea Kitty frantic. The fact
| was Pats opinion of himself was very
| low, and that nc held Of Kitty very
exalted, and the mischief was that the
I
| him did she seem, and the surer did
he become that she only spoke kindly
to him for old acquaintance sake.
.'Sho'll get betther than me, an
she'll desarve it. too" he would say.
with sigh, yet still like the moth
round the candle he lowered round the
girl.
Poor Kitty! it was provoking.
I'm just as sure as I'm slivin' that
he loves me; but what's poor girl
like me to do, . she sighed. Eve
heerd that the Queen, God bless her.
asked her Pat, or whatever they called
him, to marry her, but If a poor girl
| I'D do that she'd be counted bould.
Then sWaying herself backward and
forward, as the Irish generally do
when in grief, she continues:
"rm downright afraid Pats goin' to
be like-ouId Denn.s 3Murphy, that
coorted Mary Muttigan for twinty
years, an then when she died at the
end OF he could do nothin' but cry
'Ohone! ohone! If had but said the
word an made her Mary Murphy she
| wouldn't bin dead now An when
the priest tould him her time was
come, he said: Twas Mary Mulligan
as the angel was sent for, an doesn't
yer reverence see she wud n bin Mary
Murphy then
Poor ould Dennis" said Kitty. and
her keen sense OF the ridiculous over
coming her fears she burst into hearty
| laughter
| Then starting up she busted herself
| with her household duties, and shortly
afterwards might have been heard
singing snatches OF Irish ballads with
voice clear as a thrush.
| Father Quin had gone to visit some
sick parishoner in remote part OF
his wides struggling parish, and prob
| ably would not be home till nightfall,
so Kitty, when she had finished her
work. sat down to work at some fine
lace work which she had been taught
by the nuns who taught the convent
school close by, and where Kitty's
father had kept her long enough to be
considered "a gran scholard" by the
people of Shamrock-lale.
She had not worked long before her
mind again reverted to the smithy,
and from thence by association Of
ideas to Dennis Murphy and Mary
Mulligan, and the likeness between
that couple and herself and Pat. just
then the latch Of the back door liftad
and in walked an old woman, with
sallow, wrinkled face, black, bead
like eyes, hooked nose and pro-
jecting chin. She was clad in coarse
home-spun tweed dress, with strong
leather shoes, and gray home-spun
wool stockings. Round her shoulders,
Fshe wore n faded cloak of scarlet fam
mel, and bright-colored checked
wooden handkerchief covered her head.