The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-02-24
ETHE WILD GEESEGHYT
- BY Stanley J. Weyman. ~

lie ID.
"And recoverir-?"
"He is, glory pei"
Nor that same's not the best new
of him." Morty said with a grin. nor
the last"
True for you." Phelim cried, 'if it
was the lase word o spoke!"
What are you m~eaning?" Uncle
Ulick asked.
Hes turned" said Morty. mo less!
Turned! He's what his father was be-
fore him, Mr.. Sullivan-come back to
Holy Church and not q morning but
Father O'Hara's with him.
Turned" Uncle Ulick cried. Luke
Asgill, the Justice? Boys, you're max
ing fun of me- And, unable to believe
what the O'Beirnes told him, he looked
to Flavia for confirmation.
1T is true she said.
"Bedad, it is?" Uncle Ulick replied.
"Then I'll not be surprised in all my
life again. More by token. there's only
one thing left to hope for, my jewel,
n that's certain. Cannot you do the
same to the man that's beside your
Flavia glanced quickly at Colonel
John, then, with a heightened color. she
looked again at Uncle Ulick. hat
what l cannot do" she said.
But the blush and the smile that &C
companied it, and something perhaps in
the way she hung toward her neighbor
as she turned to him, told Uncle Ulick
all. The big man smacked the table
with his hand till the platters leaped
from the board.
Holy poker!" he cried, lis it that
you're meaning? n l felt it, and
[ didn't feel it, INC you sitting there
there forenent me, n prating as If
butter would melt in your mouth! 1t
is so. is it? But there, the red of your
cheek is answer enough"
For Flavia was blushing more bright
ly than before and Colonel John was
smiling, and the two u men were
laughing openly.
you must get Flavia alone Colonel
John said, and perhaps she'll tell you"
"Bedad it's true, and l felt it in t1e
air." Ulick Sullivan answered, smiling
all over his face. "Ho, no! Ho, no! In
deed you've not been idle while Ise
been away. But what does Father
O'FIara say, EN-"
1.-The father"- Flavia began in a
small voice.
"Ay, what does the Father say?"
H says" Flavia continued looking
down demurely, that it's a rare stick
that's no gend in it and-and it's a very
little use looking for it on a dark night.
Besides, he' she glanced at her
neighbor, "he said ned be master, you
know, and what could l do?"
Then it's the very wrong a he's
gone about It'll" Uncle Ulick cried, with
a chuckle. For there's no married
man that / know that's master! It's
you my jewel. nave put the comether
on him, and I'll trust you to keep it
there!"
But into that we need not go. Our
task Is lone. Whether Flavia's high
spirit and her husbands gravity raw
eled the road together in unbroken
almity, or with no more the Jars
which the accidents Of life occasion,
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Probably the two had their chickering's
which did not sever love. But one
thing may be taken for granted: In
that part of Kerry the king over the
water, IL his health vas some times
drunk of an evening, stirred up no
second trouble. Nor when the AS con-
vulsed Scotland and shook England
to its center. did one man at Norris
town raise his hand or lose his life.
For so much at least that ~windswept
corner of Kerry, beaten year in and
year out by the Atlantic rollers, had to
thank Colonel Sullivan.
Nor for that only. In many unnamed
ways his knowledge of the world
blessed those about aim. And above
all, his neighbors owned the influence
of one who, with a reputation gained
at the swords point, stood resolutely,
at fairs and cocknfghts upon his own
hearth, for peace. More than a century
was 10 GldpSG pSlolS piINdlC EWdI CSdSGu
to be the amusement of the Irish gent
ry. But in that part of Kerry, and
during a score of years, the name and
weight OF Colonel Sullivan, of Norris
town, awaited to quiet many a brawl
and avert many a meeting.
To follow the men of spirit beyond
the point where their fortunes CEASE
to be entwined with those of better
men is a profitless task. James Nc
Murrough, found wandering where all
favored him, was net likely to rise
above his nature where the odds were
equal and all men his rivals What
he did in Galway City, how long he
erward In the vain search for a place
i where d man cc2!a sSxagger without
courage and ruffe 1t without conse.
quences, 1t matters not to inquire.
Luke Asgfll, who could rise as much
above the McMurrough as he coul6
fall below him, was redeemed, one may
believe, by the good that lurked ii
him.. He lay a weeks on a sicl
bed, and returned to everyday life an.
other man. For, whereas he had sue.
y cumbed a passionate lover of Flavia
he rose wholly cured of that passion
1t had ebbed from him with his blooS
or waned with his fever. And where,
as he had before sought both gail
and power, restrained by as few
scruples as the worst men of a bat
age he rose a pursuer of both, blu
within bounds Close listed, at F.athe
| O.Hara's instance, he could open hi
hand. Hard, at the fathers prayer
/ he would at times remit a rent or ex
: tend a bond. Ambitious, he gave u,
; for his souls sake. the office whicl
: endowed him with power to Cypress.
There were some who scoffed benin
< his back, but in truth, as far as tn
mans reformation went. 1t was rea
: The hours he had passed in the pres
9 ence of death. the thoughts he had ha
9 while life was low in him were nc
forgotten in his health. The strong ma
ture, slow to take an impression, wa
n stiff to retain it. A moody, silent maj
going about his business with a fac
a to match the sullen boys of his natiy
land. paid one tribute only to the won
an he had loved and forgotten-he die
a bachelor.
6 (THE ENID
without any foundation for such conce,
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