The Press., 1895-01-10
What is on you, child?''
 esTTbn caccnnac31 Ssss saSIyiIlosS ma f,a tyf

54a w 1ab ID EOu yOu3 +cll1us
 The sassenach is asking me to go away with him. '
 Away with hinl?'
 He wants to give me satin gown and ring and to take me to his home. ,,
 Well, mavourneen, ; with long sigh, if he makes you true wife and is good to you, you would be better with him than here p <
 Mother" cried the girl passionate ly, "have vexed you, have I angered you, that you would turn me from your dOor?''
 "Turn you away, asthore machreel Macha, are you mad? Wouldn't it be only to see you happy and well? sup pose the man has a good farm and can pay his rent. And you would be we'll warmed and fed, my Macha, though your mothers hearth would be blank ''
 :'I don't want to be we'll warmed and fed. I am as we'll off as you and the grandmother and the girls. He would take me out to England, over the sea away. away to the other side of the worldv'
 And the girl sobbed wildly on her mOther's shoulder.
 "Send him off, then, acushla machree. Why need you break your heart about what nobody is going to bid you do! Your mother before you never wore a fine gown, and we will be hungry to- gether as we always were. ''
 Macha's weeping subsided a little, but only to break out again as fiercely as before.
 ''I cannot send him away, mother! love him as well as you. Oh, why did he ever come over the mountain? Better it had been him that lives down in the lake!'' ..
 The mother stood aghast. Holy Vir- gimp she cried, land 'tis only a score of days since we saw him first. Then, if you love him like that, my daughter, you are bound to be his wife. You must go, even to England over the sea!'
 "You don't know what you are say ing, mother. How could I live without seeing your face?"
 ''As many have to live, my Macha. Maybe he would bring you back to sec us. And you might be able to send us the potato seed or piece of the gooc flannel to keep us warm.
 Maeha looked piteously in her moth CTS eyes and then round the familiar cabin. The storm came down agai1 upon her heart, and she flung up he1 arms and fell into a swoon. Her lover arriving up the mountain, found her ly ing white on the heather outside tht door, with her head on her mothers knees, and was thus led into utterine promises which else he might never have made.
 ''It's only the heart that is too strong in her, :" said the poor mother sorrowful ly. "Et is i'll to love stranger tha must part you from your own. "
 ''I swear to bring her back, " said th' man eagerly. ''She shall come when ever she pleases and bring as many goot things as she likes We might ever build house in the valley below. " F. At this the color began to return int Macha's cheeks, and the comfortable promises sank deep into her mind.
 Little by little the struggle betweel 1 the new love and the old was softeneC away. The will of the stranger pre- vailed, and the marriage took place il a little rude mountain chapel, wher |, Macha had been baptized, and where travelling through hail, rain and storm she had knelt every Sunday since sh had been able to walk. At the churcl doors the husband reiterated the prom ise that he would bring her back-ver. soon she would return to the mountain He almost tore his bride away, WeepinI and half fainting, from the embraces Q her people, from the clinging of thei thin brown hands and the kisses of thei weather beaten faces. And in spite o the promises he had just repeated h was glad to think that he had probabl, seen the last of this wild mountain tribe