The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-24

ten. son: you mention Earl to me gain.
or to anyone else, and there'il be a lop
cared assistant director Of physical Gull
ure out on the sidewalk chasin' a Job
Got that clear?"
It's the only way I know of TO throw
a scare into Swiftly and I hate to tSse
it. at that; but something had to be
done to keep him from spreadin' the
news and gettin' me the horse laugh
all over town. That don't prevent him,
though, from Soin' around all day with
, that moOnstruck look on his face
Twice I catches HON sayin' Somethin'
over to himself in a corner. and when
] starts for home 1 finds him holdin'
my Overcoat and hat, as polite as If
he'd been wearin' plush breeches.
gives him one look, grabs my things
away from him, and pixies out; but as
1 glances back over my shoulder there
/ he is, doin' the grand salaam on the
| top step.
"Sadie1l enjoy hearin' about this"
| thinks 1.
1 has the joke ali framed up too.
and I'd almost got to the point where
| it looked funny to me, when I'm landed
on the seventh floor of the Perzazzer
and starts to stroll into the cabinet
/ finished suite that we calls our happy
little home. And what do you think2
/ There's tie three of 'em. Talbot ana
/ the Lady Irene. and Sadie. all punched
/ around the sittin' room table, that was
| spread with papers and books and
| photographs.
| "Ah, the Earl of Enniscorthy him
self" sings out Talbot jumpin' up and
/ duckin his gray curls.
"Oh. Shorty" says Sadie. Isn't it
create"
Come off" says L You don't take
| any stock in such a pipe dream as this
\ Earl business?''
why not?" says she. "Afr. F'itzger-
/ aid has traced it all out as plain as
/ day. Your grandfather was the miss
/ ing heir to the sixth Earl. And here's
/ q lovely old castle that might be fixed
| up perfectly grand, and a coat
/ arms that's too cute for anything
/ and-BUt wait until you've heard what
/ it says about you in Burke's. Read it
| to him, Miss Irene"
/ Well, there's no dodgin' EN-. They
| don't even let me shed my overcoat.
{ but jams me into chair and proceeds
4 to pump ancient Irish hiS.'rv a~6
dates, and stuff from the peerage into
/ me. Then ] nave 10 look aI g4-tursS
/ of the castle. a moldy old barracks that
| looks as though it might have been
/ condemned by the buiidin' department
! back in the time of George the Tooth.
/ There's a diagram % all the McCabes
that ever was, beginnin' with Brian
Boru and Tunnin' straight down to me.
And last there's a water color design
of the McCabe trademark. a pigs head
! supported by three crows. with a motto
in Latin that sounds Ike Soak it
| to EN-"
That's more likely than anything
I've heard yet" says !. But how co
you account for old Pat Mullins drivin'
truck?"
That was Talbots cue. He goes
back to the first Earl. who was set up
| in business by Rodney the Red, for
helpin' out in a war to see who should
be King Of ireland. 1t takes him half
an hour t get down to the sixth Earl.
that had four sons. the father of old
Pat bein' the second, one Morgan
O'Donnel McCabe ~ name.
Accordin' to Talbot. this Horgan was
an i'll tempered lad. always dOin' the
rough house act with his older brother
/ until he fin'lly quit EnniscoTthy for
good and went of to be a sailor. He
hadn't been missin' a month before the
first brother falls down well. aud
/ when the old Earl gets tired of Twin
some years after that, the third brother
| steps in and claims everything I'm sight.
/ As Horgan never turns up again.
| there's on one TO swear out q dis
possess. so the fake Earl STAYS on the
[ IOD- But 4t-t curse - on EfHl- liz
keeps too busy with the pOteen to get
married, and the first thing he knows
he's drunk himself to death; and, there
being no heir. and not much else left
but a stone castle that's fallin' apart
the red flag goes up over EnniscOrthy
and there's a vacancy in the list OF
Earls.
Things run along that way for a
hundred years or SO, and then Taboo
in workin up a case about some land
digs out this story OF the disappearin
heir. About the same time he comes
across a pamphlet, printed in New
York, givin' the history of the Cherry
Hill lodge of the Ancient Order OF Hi
bernians. and there's the name OF
Daniel Horgan McCabe-
The moment I saw that" says Tai
bot. Il Knew 1 was on the track of the
I-rightful Earl of Enniscorthy, which Is
you"