Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-17

with me-" ,. y,
..Norry never falls out with anybody,
Jacky cried with enthusiastic emphasis.
.sI,iI tum a-morrow and see you adam,
Jacky.s said Norry, taking MS cham-
ngonshIp as her due. NOW I'm DOING up
The town to see lots OF peopie--my Aunt
Mary. and the Doctor, and Fatner Lnke'
and Bibby Malones goat. Dood-py,
Tscxv. I'll tum a-morrow, Mrs. Molloy;
Tum. Dandy! He isn't the Marskss'
Mrs. Molloy."
The Marquis slipped silver coin un-
der Jacky's pillow, and went out IN
obedience to his superiors order.
Outside Norry spied her guard OF honor
| stra ygIino down toward her. She be-
| thought herself that her duty to the
stranger was accomplished. and that she
| had her friends to look after. he, she
concluded. might be trusted to ma MS
way about the place. Releasing DIS manu.
| she gave him n bright, explanatory .hou,
and shouted out: I'm tumin', Kitty anu
| Tommy. pre'ntly. Wait for me, walt Tor
| me-" and waddled on at a running pace
extremely diverting TO watch.
The lonely stranger. thus abandoned 10
,,a own devices. found occupation for the
| day: but he remembered to question: ms
| agent about Norry. The subsidiary pa
rents were naturally mentioned only 10
drop into insignificance. Norry's parents
/ might belong to her. and as such receN.
some slight attention; but no living SOU,
1 dreamed of believing that Norry peiohseu
| 90 them They were excellent people, IL
| u,oa generally affirmed-he gentleman
In every sense OF the word, she very
charming young lady-but thelr lam
| rested mainly on the fact that tney
| longed to Norry. When they traVeheu w
| 10 town and left the child behlnd tneih'
| nd
{ ,yere constituted her nurses-Marcella not
being REGARDED as sufficiently ubiquitous
| IN have an eye upon majesty OF 50 s"e
bond n disposition. When she Voyaseu
ont of sight, a group of HUMANS. ehsaeSu
q, sunnorting the town walls between inc
nauses of refreshing exhausted nature
| would forsake bar and gossip ana uaWuie
in her wake with their hands In their
pockets. whistlng as they went alohg.
Like so many big mastins: each one ie''
upon his honor to protect her'
She had a word for all; not the mean
est of her subjects went unrewarded.
She felt as a Princess feels, without any
| vanity. that she was the centre OF uni
yersal attraction. and that the person
who attempted to quarrel with her was
bound by this very fact, as by an new
table natural law, to get the worst OF IL.
This. perhaps, was the unconscious mean
ing of her splendid generosity TO her
| playmates, whatever their sex or class
might be- If she insisted on their obedi-
ence-and this. / am afraid. she did in
no half-hearted way-at least, she never
told tales of them. or procured them
| punishment or blame and always gave
| more than she received. The result was,
that there was not one rebel In her train,
and / solemnly believe not one was
| Jealous of her. Hers was very equable
and magnanimous disposition. and her
reign was pacific. when. such was her
power, it might have led to civil war.
The Marquis left the town next morn
ing. From his carriage he caught sight
| of Norry clutching slice of bread and
| lam at which she took bites in the in
| teryals of voluble chatter with the parish
| priest who had stopped to talk to her.
| The jam had made big, red blotches on
| her pinafore and her face and fingers
| were in a lamentable state. Neverthe
less, this second vision of her revealed
her as more bewitching to the Marquis
| than the first There was no wind, so
her curls were in a more orderly con-
| fusion, and as she was less excited, her
lisping chatter flowed on with quainter
fiuency. The Marquis pulled the check
string, and the carriage stopped In front
of Norry and Father Sullivan. Good =
by, Norry," he called out.
| rDood-by,. Dandby," Norry cried, re-
Numbering his name without any hes-
tation "Tum a-morrow adam; Use
sorry you're doing away"
Father Sullivan wheeled round in pro-
found amazement and quickly uncovered.
The Marquis gave him a curt nod, and
| before he could recover his wits and
make prefer of an elegant greeting, the
carriage was rolling down to the broad
| open road.
Mrs. Moloy called him the Marskiss,"
| Norry said contemptuously, with as
| much bitterness as her genial little heart
was capable of harboring toward fell
| low-creature. The word 'Marskiss" be-
| ing an unknown quantity in her ears,
| she conceived it as a term OF obloquy
| and resented it's application TO the
amiable stranger who appeared so pro-
perly grateful for her kindness and con-
descension. Now, If he had been called
a sergeant, it would be quite another
| thing. That would have been the high
| est compliment. for was not the Sergeant
| of her own town one of her very dearest
| friends-Pat Mcguire, a splendid speci-
men of the Irish constabulary, who was
ready any day to risk his life for her?
| III.
The story of Norry and the Marquis
| was round the town before the morning
| papers from DuDln were ulSlIiDultu. III
was told in every shop, at every bar
| and recounted in various ways to that
| bird of passage, the bagman; it was
| droned over fires in the bewitching sing
| song brogue of the country, mellowed
and adorned with the peoples imagina-
tive art, as it passed from mouth to
mouth. Larry Reilly had his version
from Father Sullivan; the Doctor had
more detailed and highly colored account
| from the Marquiss agent, who, in turn.
| received II direct from the noble lord
| himself. The agent, as fine a fellow as
| ever crossed a bog and rolled the Irish
81" was the only popular person in the
Grandby establishment. and the Marquis
| lost nothing in his version Of the tale.
Then there was Mrs. Molloy's account:
| and here the unpopular person, by his at
| titude of bland submission TO the auto
| crat of the village and his positively hui
| man behavior. quite captivated the rustic
| heart. He wasn't, you see, such a black
| hearted villain after ALL or at least Norry
| had charmed the fiend out of him:
| shouldn't wonder If after this he reduced
| the rents % per cent. all round. The
| MARQUIS did not reduce the rents, or ac-
| complish any other act of virtue that we
| have heard of: but he returned TO Ire
| land after a shorter interval than was
| vet known of since his marriage with a
| hard-faced and disagreeable Saxon.
| Meanwhile, Norry lived her life of al
/ fresco sovereignty. Her mother had
| taken her up to the city once In what
| Norry described to us afterwards as "the
| hooa,, Yuff-nuffn and there she had won