The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-12

1 ed abilities were devoted to such learn
 ed pursuits as midnight suppers, mak-
 ing things lively for the faculty, parad-
 ing Dublin streets in. disguise as an old
 beggar woman and raising rows and
 ructions" with the towns people. O'Malley entered heartily into these learned pursuits and would probably
 have been still at Trinity in the fresh
 man class-as MT. Webber was at last
 accounts-had he not found in the Irish
 metropolis his friend Sir George Dash
 wood and his fair daughter.
 Sir George, of course, invited him to
 his house. and Charles had an oppor-
 tunity of becoming more and more en- raptured with the charming Lucy. But 1 then there was Captain Hammersley all
 ways hanging about, and though the
 captain and Charles had become the best of friends 1t was an understood
 thing between them that the captain
 was the accepted suitor of Lucy. The
 Peninsular war was going on then the one which Sir Arthur Wellesley and O'Malley afterward took charge of and carried to such a successful issue
 against the legions of France. One day Sir George Dash wood announced to Charles that he had had him gazetted
 as cornet in a cavalry regiment which
 was about to sail from Cork to join the army in Portugal. He had, Sir George
 said, consulted Godfrey O'Malley about
 fhe matter, and Godfrey had consented
 that his nephew should don the uni- form.
 l
 l Charles was delighted. To be sure his foreign duty would take him away
 from Lucy. but then Captain Hammer,
 sley was already in Portugal with his l regiment, and as a soldier might not | an O'Malley hope tp win such distinc- tion in arms as would recommend him
 to soldiers daughter and enable him
 to ''cut out" Hammersley? Fred Pow
 CTS, great friend and boon compan-
 ion ot Webber, was going out on the | same transport, and Charles O'Malley now began to pay his vows to Mars
 with the hope that they would be heed
 ed at the shrine of Cupid.
 After having been nearly entrapped into marrying the daughter of a major in
 the commissary department at Cork,
 Charles got safely aboards the transport
 and in due course arrived at Lisbon The
 incident of the majors daughter at Cork
 vas soon. forgotten for Charles O'Malley
 loved Lucy Dashwood alone However, that susceptible Irish heart of his might
 make him appear at times to wander from | his allegiance, his condition was well ex- pressed by the words of a once popular | song:
 No matter what you do if your heart | be true,
 l And his heart was true to Poll
 | It was a new world into which Charles O'Malley, now the Irish dragoon, was in- troduced upon his arrival at Lisbon-a | world of war and fighting, but one iron, which love lon the side'' was not entirely eliminated. Needless to say he at once
 excited the admiration or the envy of all His Majesty's forces and was invited everywhere, while generals profusely of-
 fered him appointments on their staffs. One day as Charles came laundering down Lisbon street, mounted upon his proud and unmanageable charger-that is, | charger which would have been un-.
 manageable to any one but an O'Malley-
 the people scampering away from him as
 ne rode, in terror and admiration he saw a beautiful young senorita who was try | ing to cross the street stand transfxed | with fear before him and his horse The
 eautiful girl could not move. and on the | other side of her was huckster's car
 drawn by donkey Charles took in the
 situation at glance, and giving his
 charger the spur raised him in the air
 and jumped him clean over the iiuckster, the cart and the donkey, thereby saving | the girls life. who otherwise would have
 been trampled to death beneath the iron shod hoofs of the charger.
 Now this beautiful creature proved to
 be the daughter of Don Manuel de Blan-
 s-y-Silviero, who had money enough to pay of all the mortgages in Galway.
 When Charley made the leap over the