The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-17

cottage with the eleverness of the
really something to be shown to visitors to the docks
susys only dread that day Pat might be
forgotten and the cottage taken from her. She
scared of the world outside as hare The thought
the day might the children would be obliged
to enter the world beyond the dockwa turned her sick
with fear.
Susy had from mountain glen straight to the
docks Pat had been for giving her liberty when he
eeived the injury which crippled him; but then for the
first time susy had become the ardent and pleaded
for an immediate marriage. The employment at the
docks made it easy for them to marry. Susy to
Liverpool making terrible voyage from the quays of
Sligo and they married the tiny church in
squalid close the gates Italian
priest ociated Except to attend the church and do
little hasty marketing, susy had never left the docks
since that hour.
She pretty little woman, bigeyed and brown
skinned, and might have had her choice of husband
in anything but scared way when they began to pay
attentions at all loverke Those attentions would
be the of the grateful fendness which usy had for
every who kind. to her or the children:
A worldly-wise woman than Susy might have
thought of the advisability of giving the children
stronger pair of work for them than her but
Susy the thought of breaking that little sacred circle
of herself and the children with Pats empty place
visible presence, by the intrusion of stranger, would
have been proclamation inconceivable.
AS was, they made just enough to live The three
children the cool docks opening the river throve
looked back to paradise. They round-limbed,
strong healthy babies the pure peasant blood showing
their clear skin and cheeks the clean and innocent
life within the docwalls leaving their eyes without
stain except the blue of heaven it is in limpd
water -~-"
AS for the future; WELL sure, the children
ing finely There was little Pat years old, and al
ready employed about the docks jobs that beted his
years Presently Susy would have to send him to school
She hope escape that but by taking him to and
from the school herself he would the pers Of the
streets He would be Ounce among his fellows, either,
for Susy had taught him what of scholarship she herself
possessed he could read the prayer book finely and
pick bits of for his mother out Of the Irish
paper which Susy found the penny to purchase at the
church door Sundays. 49,.
all dreams and visions, and susy had
unattainable they seemed anything could well
be- There certain very great man, John Adair,
who Susy and her brood remote and magnificent
Oh much remote and magnificent than anybody
sophisticated fok!-and yet his name was a
household word in the little cottage within the dock
walls He the chairman Of the dock company, and a
living entity Susy and her Children whereas the other
directors something abstract and not realizable
Half dozen links had bound the great Mr. Adair to
those humble ves altho the gentleman himself had
not the remotest idea of it, He member of great
English guild which owned half Irish countryside. He
had thought much of his responsibilities in the mat
Corporations naturally inhuman The Irish ten
of the great city company troublesome folk
complaining Of bad and the failure of
unreasonaby demanding reductions Of rent Once
Mr. lair had had leisure to visit the wild country