The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-07-17

out OF Mrs. Crcgccn's hands, pull off her |
stocking and hang it on one OF the knobs !
Of the dresser II hope it will be the
Phynnodduree that comes tonight" she ,
said
why that oneY" said Mrs. Cregeen,
smiling.
Because Danny says that's the fairy
that loves little Manx girls"
Danny shouldn't tell you such foolish |
Did stories "
Are they storiesP"
Yes"
"Ohw
Another sly glance at the wonderful hat
on the peg behind That was a reality at
Nj events.
- But I'm sure good fairy will come |
tr mo tonight " insisted Ruby
"Whv are you sure, Ruby, vegH"
,usc--sfi9pYauSe am"
Chr!>tiarat5 gsitencd his grasp of Mona's
hand
At that moment gust of wind passed
round the house Mona remembered that
tonight she was standing with Christian
on the spot where last night she had parted
with Danny.
"Pity the poor sailors at sea"
Didn't Mona say Danny was at seaY'
eyes, she was saying So"
Then the little one sang
"In Jorby CTrragh they dwell alone
By dark peat boys where the willows moan,
Down in gloomy and lonely GLEN
Nanny, had Danny any father?"
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"Had Ruby II father"
"Hush Ruby, veg"
Monas hand unconsciously pressed the
hand of Christian "Oh," she muttered
and crept closer to his breast. Christians
bowels yearned for the child
The silvery voice was singing again;
"Who has not heard of Adair, the youth?
Who does not know that his soul was TRUTH
Woe is mel how smoothly they speak
And Adair was brave, and man, but weak.
II am quite sure good fairy is COM
Ing, !" said Ruby, cooking her eye ashanti at
that peg on the dresser.
! Christian could bear it no longer He
| flung open the door and snatched up the
darling in his arms.
An hour later he and Mona came out
again into tie night, leaving the little one,
with laughing, wondering, wakeful eyes,
in bed, and Mrs, Cregeen sitting before
the fire with something like happiness in
her usually mournful face
They took the road toward the town.
They had no errand there, but the restless,
tumultuous JOY of this night would not
leave them a moments peace.
AZ -,l Crht ha lot yoln
they saw that the church windows were lit
up. The bells We're ringing Numbers of
young people We're thronging in at the
gates. But The parson was coming out of
them. Ther> was no pleasant expression
on his face as he beheld the throngs that
sought admission. 1t was Oiel Verree, the
eve of Mary. The bells were ringing for
the only service in the year at which not
the parson but the parishioners presided.
1t was an old Manx custom, that after
prayers on Christmas eve the church should
be given up to the people for the singing
of their native carols. Prayers were now
over, and on his way through the market
place the parson encountered Tommy Bill
beg among the Others who We're walking
toward the church. He stopped the har-
Dor master and said, mind you see that
all is done in decency and order, and that
you close my church before midnight"
law, but the church is the peoples, I'm
thinkin," said Tommy Bill-beg, with a
deprccating shake of his head.
The people are as ignorant as goats, u
said the parson angrily.
"Aw well and you re- the shepherd; sc
just make Sleeps of Them" answered
Tommy, and passed on.
Laughing at the eioinder, Christian and
Mona went by the church, and reaching
the quay they crossed the bridge at the toy
Of the harbor. Then, hand in hand, they
walked under Jhe Horse hill, and without
thinking what direction they took they
turned up the path that led toward the cot
tage in the I'D quarry.
Half the hillside seemed to be ablaze
> Danny's fire over the PoolyaSh had spread
north by many hundred yards. The vino
was now blowing strongly from the SCI
and famed It into flame. The castle could
be seen by its light from the black rock
. fringed about with foam to the top o
9 Fennella's tower.
When they came abreast of the cottage
t they saw that dim light burned in on
window They stepped up and looked in
, to the house. On bed covered by a whit
4 sheet lay all that remained of Kisseck
, An old woman, set TO watch the body, sa
1 knitting beside II,
4 The deep roar of the sea was all tina
. could be heard there above the moan o
the wind.
4 (COntinued)