The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-03

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had fancied himself desperately in
love? King Corney looked at him:
they were at table. oh, you are
right, Harry, / had forgotten. There
is Black Connal. Yes, yes, Black Con-
nal has the first say. No, Dora is not
free"
and am I never to be free cried
out Dora. Il will die before I will
see Black Connal. Am / to be handed
around at the pleasure of somebody
else all Of my life? 1t is infamous! I
will not marry Black Connal."
Her father drew her to him. but
she turned her face away from him
and her eyes met those Of Ormond.
Dora's face at once became suffused
with bushes. Harry had never in his
life been SO moved. His old feeling
for Dora came rushing back. Black
Irish Rrigade-dark as his brother
had been fair, their different com
plexions having given them their nick
names. For a while King Corney saw
a ray of hope. He thought that Black
Connal might he content to be his
brothers heir without incum berlng
himself with a wife taken from an
obscure part of Ireland. But it turned
out that White Connal's profitable
farms had been on leases dependent
upon his own life.
Conna1 of Glynn had written off to
Paris, and in due time arrived, in
great state with coach and four, foot
men and various other attendants,
Captain de Connal of the service Of the
King of France. Such s%plendor of
attire, such elegance Of manner the
Black Islanders had never seen be-
fore and King Corney's subjects were
dazzled. The Captains voluble talk
of courts and camps, of philosophy
just coming into fashion hen at Paris
his praise of the lovely young
Dauphiness, Marie Antoinette-in
short all that he did and said seem
ed to make it as if a bit Of Versailles
had been transplanted to this remote
Irish corner of the world. Mademoi-
selle O'Faley was, Of course, enrap-
tured with the Captain and her French
flowed in a steady stream of admira-
ton. She resolved that Dora should
marry Black Connal and that she
wOu1d live with them at Paris. Poor
Harry Ormond and his affairs the lady
dropped inco%ntinently.
Here is a specimen of II. de Con-
nails talk: "English husbands seem
to prefer domestic happiness to the
French esprit de s%ociete. Still, this
may be prejudice Of education-of
country. Each nation has its tastes.
Everything is for the best in this
world for people who know how to
make the best of it. You would not
fhink to look at me that l was SO
philosophic-but even in the midst Of
ny military career / have thought
profoundly. Everybody in France
thinks noW-that is, everybody of a
certain rank. I see l astonish you,
Mr.. Ormond. / envy you. I give you
joy. After a certain age. if one lives
in the world. one can't be astonished-
that is a lost pleasure Thus did the
Captain rattle on when he was not
talking court scandal or fashionable
twaddle-and Dora was vastly i'm
pressed, while Mademoiselle was en-
raptured.
But old King Corney did not fancy
this Frenchified coxcomb for a son-in-
law and. believing that the Captain
cared more for none than for Dora,
offered him half of his daughters
dover to give up his claims. The
Captain, however, being warned in
time by Mademoiselle, replied that
money was as dross to him. that it
was Dora he wanted, and so walked
off with the girl and her entire dover
Dora, to tell the truth. giving a few
signs to Ormond, her old home and
father, but with her pretty head and
rather shallow heart % filed with
visions of Paris, court society and the
great world she was about to enter
that she had little room for anything
else in her mind.
Left alone with his patron in the
Black Islands now Ormond went on
daily round of duties which appertain-
ed to him as Prince Harry. He
Thought often of the Annalvs and
wrote to Lady Annaly. But the fam
lily were in the south of England,
where they had gone for the health
OF the son, young Sir Herbert Annaly.
VINO was but delicate. Then a dread
full thing happened. King Corney was
Killed by the bursting of his fowlins
piece while out shooting. Once more
Harry found himself withon q homo
He had resolved some time before to
enter the army and King Corney had
lodged five hundred pounds in a Duh
I'm banW to buy him a commission
Also Corney had written to his friend.
General Albemarle, asking his advice
as to the selection of a regiment Re-.