The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

But you must be patient and wise and
wait"
81 will so, with the help of God" says
Darby.
At these words Maureen gave a ter
rible screech.
"Cruel mani" she cried, don't you
know that to say pious words to one of
the Good People, or to one undher their
black charm, is like cutting him with a
knife?"
The next night she came to Darby
again.
Watch yourself now" she says, ''for
tonight they're goin' to lave the door of
the mountain open to thry you; and if
you stir two steps outside they'll put
the comeither on you," she says.
Sure enough when Darby took his
walk down the passage after supper, as
he did every night, there the side of the
mountain lay wide open and no one in
sight. The temptation to make one
rush was great; but he only looked out
a minute, and went whistling down
the passage, knowing we'll that hur
dred hidden eyes We're ON him th
while. For dozen nights after it was
the same.
At another time Maureen said
The king himself is, going to thry
you hard the day, so bewafei" She had
no sooner said the words, than Darby
was called for and went up to the king.
Darby, my sowl,' says the king, in a
sootherin' way, have this noggin of
punch. A betther never was brewed;
it's the last We'll have for many day.
I'm going to set you free, Darby o'Gill,
that's what am
why, king" says Darby, putting on
a mournful face, how have I offended
YEP"
mo offense at ALL" says the king,
."only we're depriving YOU.
mo deprayity in lffe!" says Darby.
| II have lashins and lavings to ate and
! to drink and nothing but fun an divar-
| sion all day long. Out in the worruld it
| was nothing but work and throuble and
| sickness, disappointment and care"
But Bridget and the childher?" says
| the king, giving him a sharp look out
of half-shut eyes.
| ooh, as for that king" says Darby,
| 'it's aisier for a widow to get hus-
band or for orphans to find a father
| than 1t is for them to pick up sover-
eign a day."
| The king looked mighty satisfied and
! smoked for while without a word.
"Would you mind goin' out an even
| I'm now and then, helpin' the boys to
mind the cows? ?" he asked at last.
| Darby feared to trust himself out
side in their company.
well, I'll tell we how 1t is" replied
my brave Darby. Some of the neigh
bors might see me and spread the re-
port on me that I'm with the fairies,
and that'd disgrace Bridget and the
childher," he says.
The king knocked the ashes from his
| pipe.
you're a wise man, besides bein' the
| hoight of good company" says he, tan
it's sorry I am you didn't take my
| word. for then we would have you al
ways, at Taste till the day of judg-
ment, when-but that's nayther here
nor there! Horsepower. We'll bother
| you about it no more"
| From that day they thrated him as
| one of their own.
/ 1t was nearly five months afther that
/ Maureen plucked Darby by the coat
| and led him off to lonely spot.
/ I've got the word she says.
"Haye you. faith! What Is it?" says
| Darby, all of a thrimble.
Then she whispered word so bias
phaymous, SO irraylgious that Darby
| blessed himself. When Maureen saw
him making the sign she fell down In a
! fit, the holy emblem hurt her SO, poor
child.
Three hours after this me bould
Darby was sitting at his own fireside
talking to Bridget and the chfldher.
The neighbors were hurrying to him
down every road and through every
field, carrying arrnfuls of holly bushes
as he had sent word for. them to do
He knew well he'd have fierce and
savage visitors before morning.
After they had come with the holly
| he had them make circle of It SO
thick around the house that fly
couldn't walk through without touch
ing twig or leaf. But that was not
all. They made second ring of holly
| outside the first, SO that the house sal
in two great wreaths. one wreath
| around the other. The outside ring
was much the bigger and left a good
/ space between it and the first, with
| room for ever SO many people to stand
| there. 1t was like the inner ring, ex
cept for little gate, left open as
though by accident, where the fairies
| could walk in.