The Newtown bee., 1897-03-05

spirit and heart as keeps face young when it's contemporaries are old.
 Mary had had many suitors. She was looked up to, so to speak, by the people of her native town, and, outside her beauty and her goodness, she had the name of being girl who would make a house well and wisely all those years. But she sent away the suitors heartless- ly. She had never yet seen 8 man like her brother, she used to declare to him privately; and as for children, where was there boy like Jacky, so hand some, so clever, so warmhearted, and so good at heart despite his thousand and one escapades.
 ,. Jacky was about l2 years old when DI Daley died. Ae caught the fever in 8 bad time of epidemic, nursing the poor fever patients in the rough hospital shed on the quay. In the first panic he had to be nurse and doctor and all. Where many were herolc, his heroism simple and unconscious, stood out brave. ly. He fought the enemy with more than human courage and devotion Then as the epidemic was abating, the fever seized on the doctor, and being enfeebled by late hours and fatigue as well as by ceaseless anxiety and sympa. thy for the suffering people, his frame had no power of resistance left. He died hero and martyr; and wher Mary, her hand tightly clasped in hel boys, followed him to the grave, hel sad heart was lifted up by the sight ot the love and sorrow of the people. He had given with both hands up tc the day he had given them his life. His will did not take long in the reading There was sum set apart to give Jacky his profession as doctor; there was a legacy to old Mamie, who had served them faithfully for so many years; the rest was left to his sister.
 The rest was far less than what Dr Daly, dying in his prime, had anticipa ted. With the most extreme care il would bring in an annuity upon which Mary and the boy might live for the few years till the boy was earning for him. self. Mary decided with tears that Nan. nie must go, while she herself took on the simple housework of the cottage to which they must remove.
 But she reckoned without Nannle That excellent woman said she would pitch tn ould money in the say if Miss Mary liked, but lave her n the child, she had helped to rear she would not, not if Miss Mary got all the polismen in the place to remove her an run her in for obstruction.
 She wanted the money to go into the common fund, but since Mary would not hear of this, she took out of it certain sum to bury her when her time came, and having deposited it with Father Cahill, put the rest in a stocking in her mattress, to be drawn upon to keep her as need arose.
 Despite the poverty they were happy little household till the day came to part from Jacky. He had grown tall and manly by the time he had finished his medical course at the Queens College. His real mother could have been no prouder and fonder of him than Mary. As the years passed and the boy grew to be a man, the old feeling changed. The two became more equal. Indeed. it was now Mary who looked for her boys advice and took it, or who listened with eager interest while he talked Of wider life and wider thought than she had known.
 But the blow came when, soon after he was qualified. he was offered. through the interest of one of his professors, a