Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-01-26
A PUGILISTIC GHOST.
THE STRANGE TALE OF MIKE
OF THE cLoNE0ALLA.
Ills Adversary In Life, jack OF KtsailsEh'
became Hls Opponent After Death
The Combat ia the Churohyard % XIII
bride Mixes One Regret

Mike Sheehan tossed awake IN the
moonlight. The glllls were quiet, and
there was no noise in the night save
the sound that had rocked his cradle
the Atlantic foaming up the narrow
rayine before his door and withdraw
ING itself with loud sucking noise,
The cabin was perched on q bleaehed
hillside. A stony, narrow path went
by the door and climbed the rayine 10
he world bsd Of slaty dock slanted
sheer below II 10 the white tossing
water
Mike, with his six feet six OF man
hood, was well in request At the
couutry gatherings A year ago a
wrestling match between him and
Jack Tierney had gathered two coan-
ties TO SEQ II. No man could say
which was the champion Now one
was the victor, again the other They
kept steady pace ia their victories.
Jack, too, was captain 81 the Kill
sallah team 81 hnrlers, Mike u the
Clonegalla,
The country people scarcely guessed
al the time their two champions be-
came enemies II only showed itself
Ia a new tisrcaness ana Diet rm nation
in their encounters Each hal sworn
Ia himself d con luer the other the
soreness betWeen them cam about
when oy some sai inlaehanst tha{ lrt
~ lose w1ta rus sane g'rl WORSE
luck, she wanted neither OF then t9r
she was vowed y me convent IT.
the long run one N Inc pth#r ~ @lt
nave tempted het to az rArtAty hst.Aats
put 7he made np choice p.t"csn ta*t
ana eaeh man chances 7er5htrL spoAt
equal when sls r.lpP'd from thsm
both into hilbr.ds rhlfrhyAet NHtu
Vie lay there neither man r3aat a
she had distinguished MN M e3.rsaa
kindness from the other AHt "a tr
rtvalry aANad mprr f3rta1s Win ths
woman tn her grave
Hut six month, iAtcr anI atte th
battles stlll undecided Jack I.arnry
tell sick ant followed Ellen 81 NH.
bride. Thea Misc NAsehan @as Ntta
out an equa. for mhag mills nut
little comfort y wa7 tn him, With the
girl ~ his hAart deal. and tha one
man r. hnd dcstrad T. overthrow aoat
and hnconqurred. IT. secluded hifua
self from tho sports II pastimgs, and
lived lonely iu his cabin among ms
gtllls, eating out his hnaaiis,iGd heart
kilbrido churrhgard Il high on Ehe
mainland and ilrs dark Within IN iour
stone walls, The road to y u by .
tunnel ~ trees that make q sha1r
vcgvety black even when the moon i
turning alt the sea silver Inc church.
yard is very Old Anl ha no mpnl'
ment- of Importance, only green
hcadstonea bent sideways aud sunk -
their neck and shoulders Ia tho earth.
\ Posteru gate. wtth . dight ol stone
steps. opens from ktlbrtle lane
Here every night you may see M"
ghost ~ lphim, thc murderer. climb.
ing those stops with . rigid huriau
hanging from bis shoulder
But a. Mike Sheehan assembled thr
steps out % thu midnight dark M felt
no fear he changed she gate it tho
sacred, quiet places IN q way that srt
the silence erhotng som mad pas.
sion was o. Mise Shachaa surely Or
hn would not have desn trat,Is tho
qulet rrstingPlare 81 thn deal
Ihere by thN ruined gable If the OIL
abbey was a fresh mound unusually
great ~ $40. Nike Sheehan paused
BY y ''JHek ha cried II o thun.
derous voice, hohrso With its pa sion
Tome. let - once for ali settle
which = VI" hctt"r man. CONS and
hight me. Jack, and II SOU throw mf
LEI Ellen ~ yours now and forever.
~ he looked 70 right ard left sub.
stanttal things had vanished. but hs
saw on cithor hand long rows 81 chad.
owy iac's watching him Many Of
lhem ne knew. lhey were the boys
and girls. the men aud womou % his
own village who had died IL many
years. Others were strange. but he
guessed them ghosts from ktlaaIlagh,
beyond Roscarbery he village where
Jack used TO live He looked eagerly
among the folk he remembered for
Eliens face. There was one who