The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-02-14

| "She married Emmett Mcguire. Me
and her has been a-Katherining to-
gether many is the day"
She's dead sixteen year"
"Ah, me, that it is always, They are
dead-dead. What's the age of you?"
Eighteen come Saint Kentigern's
day"
Amt you hungry them
"She gave me something" with a
grateful look at Nora, but it's here"
and one hand tluttered to her heart,
land Mike-no.-not dead!"
She would have fallen but that
Nora's arms caught and held her up.
Fetch the cot, Pat, and stretch it
here. Never a bit could we get her
: upstairs-nor-dow it come to
/ that" Nora's face now was as white
as the strangers.
"Mike-you were saying"
'Shame. Nora. to poster her"
But Nora persisted. Mike"
"Mike-do you know him?-Mike
Killibrew?"
You are never meaning him"
SHANE. Nora! And amt there
!
! brews,"
His hair is like asphodels, yellow
and curly-you know him."
The ANXIOUS eyes looked into Nora's,
| but they grew meaningless and wan
| dering. The long strain had been too
much
! The gentle voice went on and on,
with stories of boy ana girl love, with
/ bits of old Irish song, tales of St. Pat
rick's festivals, of midsummer divina-
tions-and always the same name
over and over,
The two women sat long in silence
/ at their watch over the stranger.
"Whcn was it then. Nora. that you
| and your Mike was to marry?'
ct was next month" Unconscious
~ she spoke as though il were a thing
no longer o be looked forward to. a
/ faint light OF stars came out over the
lake. Nora rose to put on a walking
coat.
"Where are you going TO, Nora?''
81 want Pat to go with mc-to the
furnace"
"But this poor creature"
"And amt there hundred and one
of your Mike Killibrews?"
"Thcre amt but one man on earth
for her"
"Thc same for other folks" Nora
was tying her bonnet strings,
at amt the same growing up with
one like and just showing a man
sin months or So"
Nora tied careful bow under her
chin. Something far tighter seemed
tied about her heart as the blue eyes
smiled mp at her from the cot
The Park furnace was a patch OF
black on the gray evening The smoke
from its chimneys made quiyeriug
shadows along the dim earth. The
doors of the ovens that Waterman
Mike Eillibrew attended seemed like
doors TO the Internal regions Within
were whirling blazes, flames of red,
blue and gold wheeled vchcmently
round and round, like the curbed
wings Of some fallen angel-im-
prjsoned, bound, but still fun of futile
restIeSsness.
Nora went near the watchman and
touched his shoulder
oh, Nora? You scared me. Why,
what brings YOU here! / thought YOU
were one Of the Little Folks-thc fair
les, they are out to-night-this is ncen
ma Zeal tina"
May Eve know it. Pat come with
me; you want afraid, ell, Pate"
Those Little Folks1l give you and
Pat both blast for daring them"
They talked Of many things ere
Nora could bring herself to speak of
what had brought her there.
I'm wondering, Mike, if you ever
loved any girl but me?"
Nov, I'm wondering. Nora, what
you'lI be for wondering next"
Say, now, in the old country
didn't You love anybody like you are
loving me?"
NO, never the same. Nora"
"Fhen I'm wondering was it more?"
Not more, Nora. It's just YOU and
me in the world. Nora; and nobody
else in it if my thinking of them had
to make EN-"
hitN IL. Mike, she Nobheh. /
knew it," But with a woman's per-
sistency: WAS there anybody near
Killarney side you loved just a lii
tIc?"
THE old woman"
Not your mother, them"
"Well," Mike hesitatcd. "as ON
wedding day is so nigh, ! don't mind
telling you. Nora, there was a girl in
the old country, and we were sweet
hearts"
lou were promised?"
"Well-ycs but that was four-fyp
years ago-and never word in all that
time have | written to the old coun-
try"
shed never be following YOU out
across water. Mike?"
Never a bit. But funny you got
to talking of this. I've been thinking
Of that old time tonight, like
haven't been thinking in years.-it
must be the little people out May Eve
if they have come cross the water