The Cairo bulletin., 1909-02-20

| re collHH 40 IT. Mdly no" oaIu'
| mo. he couldn't put on different
! face"
viii. Is that yere mither's fa-ace?"
| Pat asked. ''Oi say, is that yere NTH
ers fa.ace?"
Mary had to acknowledge 1t was
not
And the rist of it's your mither,
amt it," he further questioned
Mary had to acknowledge 1t was.
"Will. there you be" Pat said. The
doethor said the poison ivy moight git
in her dyes and blond her, didn't
he? VIII, Oi suppose It did. But
Old ruther have her blond than with
such a mug, In al me loife. OF niyer
saw a fa-ace loike that He's got
to ta-ake it off. Mary. Oh tell ye. OF
won't stand H."
Mary sat down and held her head
In her hands.
Honest, now, Mary" persisted Pat.
did ye liver see SIGH a fa-ace?"
It's awful, it's awful" she moaned.
The next moment they almost fell
called Mary. II was her mothers
voice.
"Dyou hear?" Pat whispered, "d'you
hear? She's calm, and with that
that fa-ace, hut it's her voice Amt
1t. Mary"
They listened Once, twice, three
times they heard it call Mary. There
was no mistaking that voice.
II was getting dark now. The trees
about the doorstep throw that region in
to deeper gloom. AS they sat there Pat
and Mary heard sounds from within.
They crouched closer together. Both
We're shaking from head to foot. And
when they beheld, framed in the door
way, the familiar figure bearing that
awful face, they skunk away in mortal
by the pump they sunk breathlessly
down upon it.
"Oi say Mary. Mary. where be ye?
Pat Pat, come loight the lamp. 1t
must be tonne fur me med cine Mary!
Mary Mary
The words come to them striking
chill TO their hearts
Finally Pat became emboldened
IT'S moo use, Mary" he said "Oi
got to 90 and foind out about it. But
Oill niver be satisfied. Mither's
got to have a dacent fa-ace, OF no
fa-ace at all. Oh won't pay a rid clint
fur sich a-fur- sich--a--
The words died away as he moved
toward the open doorway, through
which there now fell the feeble rays
OF the low-turned lamp. From a dis
lance he could look in. and there.
seated at the table, was the well
known figure. the hideous counte-
nance, The lamplight made 1t look
still more horrible
While Pat was gazing Mary crept
up to him, and together they con
tinued to look in silence. While they
stood trembling Mrs Muldoon slowly
raised her hands and removed the
cause of all their fear, laying it upon
the table beside her.
"Oh. Oh, gasped Pat, praise be
TO God, It's a falst fa-ace."
Mary heayed a sigh of relief at
sight of the familiar cottonbatting
with which her mothers face had
been covered for the past week
Was you fur foolin' us. mother"
she asked
Twas good io-oke," Pat said.
and began to laugh boisterously.
Twas no jo-oke at ALL" said his
wife, sternly. "Ofn have We under
shtand OF don't feel loike looking"
When Pat heard this he ceased
laughing. The statement that it was
no joke aroused in him a new fear
Perhaps, after all, the face was not
false, perhaps
Pats wife arrested his further
thoughts by clapping the face into
place again.
"Trow that thing out" he now ex-
claimed "Oi won't be hayin it scarin'
the loife out o me Trow it out, OF
say! Dye think ye look noioe with
ii on? Ye look worse than the diyil
What We wearin' It fur?"
"Nhat'm OF wearin' 1t fur?' repeat
ed Mrs Muldoon. What do ye sup
pose Dim wearin' IL fur? It's to hold
the cotton battin an the salve Ga
me face. That's what Orm wearin' It
fur. They have lar masks fur that. /
The docthor troied to git wan. but
couldn't so he got this here falst face.
1t answers the purpose iuisht as well /
"Orm willin to pay fur that face"
said Pat, chuckling.
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