The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01

the mainland and who mingled freely in works of charity and in social inter course with the Protestant clergy. Father Jos regarded as 'tinctured with Method l ism"
 In short, King Corney, his domain, his subjects and his household were survivals out of the past-good old conservative survivals without an ounce of harm in them and many pounds of good. There was no love lost between Sir Ulick O'Shane and his cousin Cornelius Sir ulick affected to pity the King of the
 Black Islands and to regard him as barbarian, while King Corney in his
 big Irish heart could find no place for selfish schooner, a man without sound
 principle, as he knew Sir Uick to be.
 They had little ntercourse-though when Sir Ulick thought of King Corney's wealth
 he heaved a sigh to the fact.
 When Ormond sent word to King Cor
 rey that he had been banished from Cas-
 tie Hermitage and was coming to pay i his respects to his majesty, that mon
 arch sent back by runner a letter bid ding him hearty welcome, hailing him as his son and declaring that he was here after to be Prince Harry. A boat with flags flying and piper playing like mad in the bows took Ormond across the lake, and at the landing was a spirited horse. his mane decked with ribbons, for the prince to ride on to the palace door. All along the way the tenants, by King Cor ney's order and also because they knew and loved the youth, were stationed to hurrah for the prince and to make frightful noise with horns much to the disquietude of the seed, who put to test Ormonds horsemanship.
 Harry had thought over his past life in the few days intervening between the shooting of Moriarty-who, by the way, accompanied him to the Black islapds- and his arrivel in King Corneys domains. He had seen his faults, many of them, and had resolved upon amendment. One of his faults. he realized, was an exces- sive indulgence in drink, ard he deter mined to check himself while there was yet time. They were mighty drinkers at the palace, or Corney castle, as the house of Cornelius O'Shane was indif- ferently called, and on the first night when the bottle was going around after dinner and Ormond felt that he had mad enough he arose from the table and sig nified his intention of retiring.
 If a bombshell had been exploded in the middle of the dining room King Cor ney could not have been more astonished Then he was indignant A gentleman leave his table after only few glasses? It was an outrage upon his hospitality. He abused the boy roundly. and Or lnond, feeling that he had lost the only friends left to him, put his head on the table and burst into tears. King Cor ney's heart was touched. He soothed and comforted Harry, and took an oath before the priest that thereafter he would allow Ormond-and Ormond only ito drink or not drink at his table as he saw fit. So they made up, and Or mond settled down as an integral part of the establishment of the monarch of the Black islands. King Corncy gave him farm, and all the people called him Prince Harry.
 But Harry's time was not entirely spent in hunting and fishing >or making prog resses with his benefactor through his domains. Before going to the Black Isl- ands he had paid visit to Lady Annaly, had seen Florence Annaly again and had observed with sigh the quiet, we'll ordered, simple and pure life led by the family Lady Annaly had sent him a great case of books, which she advised him to read in order to repair the defi- ciencies of his early education, and these books Harry read assiduously Once in while he thought of Florence Annaiy- but with no thought of love. Why should he? Was she not promised. rumor said to the son of General Albemarle? No he thought oftener of Dora O Shane, King Corney's daughter, who had been his playmate in his boyhood visits to the Black Islands and who was now away somewhere on the mainland" with her aunt-Mademoiselle O'Faley they called this aunt when she spoke French and Miss O'Faley when she spoke English. She l was the sister of King corney's dead
 wife, and, like that departed saint, half
 French and half Irish, her father hnving i been an officer of the Irish brigade fin
 the service of His Most Christian Majesty
 and her mother Frenchwoman of good family Miss o'Faley had passed the