The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-12-25

Dear child, whispered ArChy, am IN
communication with him."
"SirP"
II have become n SpiriiuaIist, and am
medium. If yOu ever dare. can LET you
talk with Brian O'Connor'S ghost
90 ArChy, from one kind of ignorance
/ you fly 10 another. No trick Of your new or
old religions can delude me. shall always
be a good, plain Lutheran, borrowing no
trouble from the next world
But Peri's dreams that night were not so
/ good The mighty illusion of seeing Brian
in the flesh, If the ethereal, spectral sui'Sii-
/ tute for tho flesh, had scattered her angels Of
! the visions, and She was disturbed.
The next dav she went TO the Hospital
and asked for Sister Ayoca.
A plain, worn. slightly wondering girl OF
the Mendicant Order Of Lay Sisters came 10
the Hospital parlor. Very remotely she
resembled the handsome, lofty-statured,
easeul looking OConnor
Were you Brian OConnor's sister,"
'Yes; one Of my brothers is named Bri-
an"
"Whcre is he?"
" don't know. Wasn't he with the Eng
lsh Minister"
is?n
i think not; father and mother died last
Winter. We are q good bit scattered about.
My brother often goes away 10 be clerk for
CoHgiessmen and Ministers. Why do you
ask?"
lie was my dear friend. That was all"
" will come TO see you" said the sister
soiteBing. Il had a dear friend He was
taken away and ! expected 10
FORGET IT IN WORKS or CHARITY.
o, lady, we DO not forget. We were made
for pleasure as well rs for pain"
Sister Avoca often came to the house, and
IL was odd that she made no religious inn
preston at all 10 turn Peri from the paths
Of her Lutheran traditions, but made de-
cidcd impression that way upon Carew.
Ny dear, you have plenty 10 occupy
your mind, said Carew TO Peri one day.
You earn some money, have been in the
arms Of love, and gel the dignity Of the loss
You have suffered. l am nothing 10 any
body. Why can't I 20 with Avoca and do
some chauy?n
81 BE silent, Dove! Changing your skin,
like the crab, won't make you another heart
and nerves. If you were to do a thing like
that you would lose Archy's respect. ii Is
you he loves. am nothing bat his Leah;
you are his Rachel. lie must serve a time
lCr me before he can claim you!"
" DO you think that, indeed ?"
. do. The religion Of ones mother is
good enough, whatever it is, Coo! Do you
suppose i would he any dearer TO my noble
friend whose counsel is now my scripture,
by running into his church fold? When
our hearts sprang toward each other we
thought, last of all, what Number Three
would have TO say. o, no, two hearts are one
church, and the whole world wOrships at
that service. Our generations, dear, were
poor Our birthplace was no better than the
manger. But our mother sleeps in the Dun
lsers' burial-placc, and with all my love for
Mr.. O'COnnor, il he could return TO me now
aud command me 10 change my cloak, /
would say: ! came from the mountains,
where there are no slaves. The little that ]
know Of churches is that / shall not desert
my father and mother and admit that where
they lie is not holy ground enough for me"
How strange, Peri! AyOca does not en-
courage me, either She says that it is with
IN one true lives lie, and cannot he altered
by subscribing TO something external; that
patience Is better than profession"
"ARCHY is A sPRITUALIsT,
] hear, poor fellow! The murder Of Mr..
O'Connor is upon him and upon US. We
three are all that know Of it. Are We not
all guilty?"
Patience they should all three have been
grateful for. The minds Of the two girls
were rounding like their bodies into the
symmetry OF mature life. CaTcw attended a
school; Peri had work from the Depart
meuts; Archy saved money, and had become
foreman OF the whole building gang on one
wing Of the new Capitol.
/ want 20 be master builder, girl" he
4 - l.. II.
fortune must study, aud there is where /
am paying the penalty Of my dreadful
oNensC. Ihayc 80 much TO do TO compromise
that act that have not the time 10 become
a scholar in my trade"
"Pshaw!" spoke Peri, "whom are you
compromising bloodshed with, sir2n
"SpiIits,n said Archy, eyasiyely.
Peri Tuthill looked 50 incredulous that
her sister Carew lost her temper.
Peri" said Carew, you do not treat
Archy with common respect"
" Let me behold his spirits" exclaimed the
elder Superstition has been our sorrow"
The next day Archy was gone, and both
4 the sisters missed him more than they would
say. His meek kindness and severe pains
20 raise their mutual lot had established
an obligation ihat required only his pro-
/ iOnged absence 90 make IL impressive.
He returned Ia a week with his flesh re-
/ duced, and he was now a lean, sinewy, spec
/ tral-cyed man, but his appearance was in an
other respect improved.
Care had partly gone from his brow. A
sort OF tired rest was in his eyes, as If the
soul had earned some boon by wearing the
! body out
think Of il, childrenin exclaimed Archy.
81 have been on the White Rock Mountain
old GAIA ! call il. There looked down
upon the three valleys from one tree-Cum-
! bcrland, Middlctown and Pleasant Valleys.
| Yes, ! saw into the Aniieiam side valleys.
| too. Glorious, Canaan-like prospects they
were, 80 miles in span, and they were dear
i 20 me
As THE VIEWS or OUR CHILDHOOD.
But descended into the old BTaddOck road,
on the farther side Of the mountain, and
hunted the oldest graveyards over and
visited the oldest living men. DO you
| know what have discoveredYp
Not Brian's bones" sighed Peri, excited
by hs earnest manner.
No, not that / have found out some
thing will part ms all forever You will be
great ladies. j will DE a poor mechanic
with my tin kettle Of dinner and my stone
cutters Oycralls"
80 To part forever" gasped Carew.
+" Yes, my child. ] have brought the dead
10 life, as You commanded. ] have found
the Testing-places of all those ancestors
Grandfather Turtle named 10 Won in his
/ little smell ~ reeayarad rpatncry hr ,I. III.