The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-10-06
out to We partly:

OuG 10 y0 pdrrI4y:
''S'int Patthrick was gintleman
And KEN av dacent people.
He built church in Dublin town
| An on ut put shteeple.
His father was Gallagher.
His mother was a Brady.
His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy,
His uncle was O'Grady.
So success attind Stint Patthrick's fist,
| For he was saint so clever.
Oh, he gave the shnakes and toads twist
| That bothered thin forever.
eye see, that's a beautiful pom, mis-
ther-Misther Knownothin-wud solud
Irish sintimints, an the whole moral law
jellied down into shtandin shape in the
chorus"
| He moved backward a step here and
/ touched his own breast as he continued:
''The 'umble person We do see beforeye
is fractional DESCENDANT along 'th bein a
namesake O. the gintleman, Stint Pat
thrick himself, an up to the present mo-
ment sure success has always attinded
his fist! We're av pedigree that has no
use for toadS norr shnakes norr ANYTHING
toadyin norr shnakin-beyant giVin thin
a twist that'n bother thin forever. Sure
KEN down this mornin with the 'onera-
BILE intintion O. latherin the bit av a var
mint, Socola, wud me fist, but the wave
O. prosperlty-or posterity, which liver ye
hke-hfted him beyant me entirely. But
I'll be down again, place God, in couple
O. days wud Stint Patthrick's weapon!''
He held up his clinched fist. ''And
now" he added, extending his hand, ST
do wish ye good dayy''
The Sicilian stood and looked after him
a ni0ni4 in bewilderment, and then he
said something, presumably in Anglo
Italian--at least it sounded like ''dam-
fool" a word not found in English print
By a strange coincidence Pat said the
same word as he turned the corner. He
had picked up good deal of the colo
quail patois of these people.
When Socola returned to his shop on
the next day little withered grotesque
impersonation of bilious pomposity, his
inner consciousness nevertheless CORE
sponded to his own best ideal of noble
dignified and tender father.
Indeed he felt father to all the world
excepting of course the dear woman tc
whom he was husband, and this excep.
ton was as distinct and as tender and
sensitive as only this particularly potent
occasion could make it.
He had hitherto known nothing so ex-
quisitely refined as the almost reverential
tenderness with which his intensely mas
culine heart went out to the sallow little
mother and the tiny yellow man-child
who lay upon her breast today. The
combination was something to live for
to fight for. to die for-almost.
And Pats offense was against this EN-.
bodiment of sacredness-thisw woman
this infant.
The accidental wife, the incidental
babel How the thought would cheaper
the sacred possessions in the vulgar
mindi To Socola himself, when it all
dimly required to him, it seemed almost
8 dream which he no longer more than
half believed. If he were choosing again,
he could choose no other woman of all
the world, and surely he would have
no other babe than this.
When the two men, the one with the
blind eye and the other, came together
into the shop on this second day and gave
to Socola, separately as opportunity of
fered, the sign of the Malta, it was
signal to withdraw hastily with them
into his private Office.
A subordinate gives the summons to
Liz SA4OA OLAJ WAOL a VI
importance is pending.
When he returned to the shop an hour
later, the old man was still blue about
the lips. and his hands trembled as he
swore promiscuous oaths indiscriminate-
ly at the employees of the shop for i'm
aginary offenses.
The two men had gone silently together
out the side door with their heads down.
Although Pat was restless in view of
an impending row and eager to have it
over, gauging the probable duration of
an Italian spree by the Hibernian stand
ard, he did not think it worth while t.
return to the city for several days.
The gentleman from Palermo had in
the meantime had much time for sober
reflection. He had of course heard of
Pats projected visit and was ready for
him-with an extended hand.
Indeed no crafty diplomat ever con-
founded an adversary with more gra-
cious and smiling suavity than that
with which he greeted and disarmed his
ingenious guest when on the Thursday
following Pat re-entered his shop.
Socola's English vocabulary. at best
matter of few hundred words. seemed
today to have shrunken until it was less
only than his comprehension.
He failed utterly to understand that
there could be anything disagreeable in
his visitors mission.
The interview. ludicrous pantomimic
affair throughout, ended by mutual
handshaking confession of friendly feel
ing. and Pat went away entirely salts
fed that either mistake had been made,
the Sicilian had forgotten his oath or
the coming Of the babe had indeed
crowded murder out of the fathers
heart
He had personally no longer quarrel
with the cid man. He had refuted the
lie and was simply willing to stand by
the refutation.
IF he had glanced Backward as he left
the shop and seen the laenacing scowl
that followed his receding figure. he
would perhaps have understood
From Socola's presence he went mp
.shome'' to the Di Carlos. Here. 10 his
dismay, two more notes Of solemn warn
ing awaited him.
Both were unsealed. Indeed they
were written On xnfelded e<.raps Of