The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-06


 itantly. demureiy. but not without a certain hint of unconquerable determi- nation and power in her stature. boise and movement. and with A light of strange inquiry in her great blue eyes as they rested upon the stranger diff fidentiy.
 Her father greeted her fondly enough. but more like a rough companion and sharer of toll than loved child, I thought. and still with shade of anx- iety in his honest. rugged face.
 She stood for little leaning against the fireplace. drinking In our words. and particularly all references to for eign lands. with almost fiercely hungry eyes: and finally. after partaking of a bit of food. disappeared with her broth CTS and sisters to their beds in tho loft above.
 Whatever subject we spoke upon. we somehow always came back to Eileen. In little time found that the girl had been her fathers constant companion for years In the dangerous work of the sea; could manage boat with all the skill and dexterity of man; had shared every manner of arduous task Involved In mackerel and longtime fish Ing; and knew every eddy of the sea. every nook and cranny of the coast. every rock. islet, shoal and fishing ground, as familiarity as the canniest Kerry fisherman, from Dingle to Kin sale.
 Aside from the few Irish lasses at the fair at Cahirsiveen, Eileen was the only maiden grown I had noticed that day though had seen her once before In a way that now filled me with dread for the peace of this fishers home-and asked her father where the bright faced girls of Kerry had gone.
 Gone Is lt-Gone? Heugh!" he an- swered with sudden spirit. lover tn say entirely"
 But surely they could not all go to America" ventured protestlngly
 An couldn't they though? It's bred they are in tn milk av their mothers breasts to do that same" This with bitterness. "A girsha's no better nor ten year high, whin tn fayver's on her Faith, an she'll work like a baste, an save like an ould bite. slyer an de- saytfuller nor Ould Nick himself; an some honest bye an bide wid her own, like dacent craythur-Pz-i-i-p!-an' away she's gone, like an aigle over the say"
 Here the fisherman drew his little wife closely to him with gesture of wondrous pride and fondness.
 "Arrah, an this jewel O me own cab in wouldn't be in 1t tn day-heaven bless an kape her till me dyin' hour!- if I hadn't stole her wan night from Carragh-side. like thief O tn wurrl an thin bate tn ould mans skull for hint O me temper, an sint word to eleven uncles for a meetin'. at their own convaynance, barrin' any fast-day O tn seven!
 How, then, have you kept Elleen?" I asked eagerly, thinking of what I knew and he did not.
 He turned quickly to me with a stern face, putting his little wife almost rude y away III ehloliCk iioluHI iu6C fist came down with tremendous crash upon the deal table.
 Fore God, I'd kill tn man or woman that'd entice her from tn dure I'd see her dead afore I'd let her turn wan- derer beyant tn say"hN .'".T T''-
 The little wife attempted to soothe him with many crooning words, but he was terribly swept by the storm of feel ing upon him. He paced the cabin ex- citedly; plunged through the door into the night and back again; and after a shrug of his whole frame, like some great animal flinging another off, con- tinued impetuously:
 "Ould Ireland-save her-is sorra enough, heaven knows; but tn heart O her is aiten out, more by tn fayver O lavin', than by tn wurra O stayin'. Lux at her now!-th' young an tn strong clutchin' tn very pennies from her dead ey yes to fly away wid an en- rich some other land, till on'y tn trim blin' ould an tn rottin' dead remain"
 I saw instantly it was the one sub ject sore above all others in the heart of the majestic though simple figure before me. He had painted wofully true picture of one of Ireland's causes of decay: but I was astounded at the revelation which followed, the truth of which I could no longer doubt after what had seen scarcely two hours be- fore.
 "Th' poor craythurs, they're not to olame!' He said this with compass ,ionate gesture which seemed to com- prehend Eileen above us in the loft where there had more than, once been ] rustling and stirring. as of some one inpatient to hear and know.
 Its tn divil's own sowls that like snakes iver crawl over tn ould sod wid heir bhsthering tongues, tayzin' tn ,hilder away. Many bone O theirs I've cracked already; an, by tn five ,rasses, I'll murther tn first wan that Iteps foot in Port Magee"
 Pressing him for explanation, Il earned this startling fact: That veri- able human ferrets, if not in the di- 'ect pay of the transatlantic steamship yet still subsisting upon the profits of the nefarious traffic, pene- rate the remotest regions of Ireland, owing the seed of dissatisfaction and lnrest and consistently painting the re- wards and delights of effort and life in | oreign lands; until the country dis ricts are constantly in such tremors # excitement and heartache for those vho are going or are gone, that there 8 no lowly home where is not lowering he shadow of a terror so great that it l
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