The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-02


them packed four times their number OF
women and children-watched Murtogh
when he brought his guests past rum
the gate. ..o, NTH
. SLOW step and the CLEAN of a nigh ha-
ture in his eyes. His own people sa"
sfrssh how great was his rght 10 DC
proud The broad, hard muscles oi n'S
legs. straiRing 10 burst theiE l" So -
leather thongs IS he walked, tue '
weight and thickness OF the breast anu
snouldars under the thin summer CLOAK
- cloth from the Low Countries, Wnlch
IA beTd vrapped tight about them; the
norded sinews of his big bare neck
abovs all. the iion-liks head, WIN us
dauntless regard and hts spiehou oiu a.
riaek name. and the sparkle OF soia IN
10 S,,shing olib on his brow-where
stsa In an ireland would their match oe
found7 But for that strange injunction
"a silence. the fighters OF the sept "c"io
SO snlitting the air with yells ioF thei
chieftain They struck their "eAtuIs "
Sether and made the gaze they peht va
him burn with meaning. ana ne MieIlo,.1
hacking read Il, and bore hlmsei ihoie
ns,iv vet and the mothers and wives
and litfle ones huddled behind IN IN.
aarlrass groaned aloud with the pam VI
,betr iov IN Murty Mordha.
7, swelled the greatness OF Murtosn
whom they looked upon those VINO ioito"-
81 him. ut ia the s0ggarth hathah theE
u,hispered, at view Of the young priest
u,,,h his pointed face and untimeiy
.,,httorea hair He would not turn his
80, Glance 10 right or left. as he follow
"A close in his cousins lordly footsteps.
for the reason that these sea wolves OF
Dunlogher had ravishcd and burnt ms
others country within the year ana
slain his brother. and CRASHED their teeth
now. even as he passed. Tor rage at the
sight OF him. .,,,
And the messenger who came TO speak
20 Nurty the words of the King OF Spain!
srhev rrinned as they stared upon HIM
A. eel Av lame hedgeling gull, young
,~,b tbat has lost its shell. thus they
,,,uru,red OF him His legs were scarce
tbc 1,irness OF a Cape wCg1an's arms, ana
we're clad in red sililen cloth stretched as
close as skin. lie had foolish httle letI
with boots Of yellow leather rising 10 me
tnoe and from the mid-thigh 20 the waist
we're unsaemly hulging brooches. blown
ont like n buoy and gashed downwise
v.it,, e.~ireS OF glowing ColOrS. repeated
again In his flowing sleeves. His FURNISH
a stool corselet and long recd-lke sword
u,oitI3 he TOYS for children in Dunlogher.
fIis face under its wide plumed nat OF
arah felt was that Of no soldier at ala
M, s,,ooth. rounded face OF a strange.
"a r,ous,achlos. and delicately Blended
,ose And tho eyes Of him, They seemed
% ha half Of his countenanCe IN size. what
u-ith their great dusky-white balls and
sloa black centers. and their thick raven
fri,ees and hrows that Joined each other.
The armed kernes who stood nearest took
not much heed Of these eyes, bat the older
women. peeping between their shoulders,
saw little else. and they made the sign OF
the cross nj the sight
when two hours had passed the hassr
folk OF Dunlorher knew roughly what
was in the wind Two wayfarinS men OF
humble station had come in the train o.
me Standard and though they had no
irish. their story somehow made itself
told A ship from Spain, which. indeed,
Dunloeher had seen pass week before,
rad put IN ~ Dinele on the Kerry coast.
and had landed James Fitzrnauvtce, the
,aral le~ate Sanders some other clergy.
ara a score and more Spanish gentlemen
o- men AT arms with hammer blessed
Nv the Holy Father. \ great army from
Snagn ard Italy would follow n their
wake But. meantime. the first corners
were building fort a. Snerwick. and the
clan OF Fitzgerald was up and messengers
we're aving through the length and
breadth OF Munster and ConnauEht- pass
ing ihe word 20 the Catholic chiefs that
The hour % driving TIE English into the
sea was a. hand.
The lower aoors ~ the castle and the
rleaSsrt grassy bawns outside. cooI with
the Sost sea wind OF the summer night
were stirred to common fervor ny these
,idinrs. The other O'Mahonys. the chiefs
% Dunnsnus aud Dunheacon 70 the
north. ~ BaIlydevlin. Leamcon. Ariin-
tenant AMI Roshrin - the south. and eIse-
where in Desmond the OSullivanS. Mac
Carfhys. O-Driscolls and ne rest we're
clashir, their shields ~. when they
should see NIrty stri3ing ,ut0 the field
n the big hall overhead. whore after
three courses % stone stairs werr climbed
SO narrow that a man 81 aruo- must
needs walk siteways-the abode ~ the
chieftain ard his own blood bersn-Nu~-
togh was ready 20 hear re message OF
the King o. Spain.
The broad. rough-hewu table, with It's
dishes % haif-cleanef boues ana broker
chceSss and bread. its drinking horns and
a7vows and Inter ~ knives ara spoons
mad been given over - the 1astrr's grey
hounds, who stood with forenaws on The
. hoard ard insinuhted their long racNs
ana u-syzziss noiSe,ess1v here end .he~a
among the remains Of the meal 4 clunp
- T---2, immersed - a ar---a- az -. -