The Republican journal., 1912-06-20
Tim Mullins Invention.

washin' out by noon if you don't wake
up. What in the name of hivin is bother
in you? You've been goin' round all
day with a lost soul look on your face.
Och, what's the use of tryin' to perk her
up tall, a'tall, as she looked at the girl
carelessiy hanging up the clothes.
''You've got lot to answer Tor, Inn
Mullin; not but what-oh dear, oh, dear,
it 'ud all be for the Dist. 1-Kittie!'
she suddenly shrieked.
The girl was coming in with her empty
basket, much damaged bull dog at her
heels. He was an old and tried warrior,
judging from the battered condition OF
his ears.
eff you let that dawg In the house III
be after takin' the tongs to him, the
dirty, homely- lookir' cur. It's pity
Terry Burke wouldn't be settin' his mind
on somethin' besides fightin pups. No
wonder is it, he's on'y workin' on the
sewer pipes year in and year out, and he
man, growed now, too, turnin' twinty-
five. It's you that had better be gettin
him out of your mind Jim Donovan"
With flash, Kittie turned to her, all
listlessness gone, the blue eyes blazing,
radating fire, defiance.
'Leave Terry Burke alone! TITS not
to me you want to be abusin him.
Workin' on the sewer pipes, is he?
Whose fault is it? You know, and father
knows, and all the boys at the gas works
know It's your Jim Donovan, boss of
the pipe men-the little snake-that's at
at the bottom of it all. Him do you be
havin' to the house here, when you know
hate him! He'll keep Terry down, and
grind, and grind him, as longs he knows
Terry is thinkin' of me. And you,
fercely, ''and father, too, to be encour-
agin' the little beast! But one thing III
have you know, III stick to Terry Burke
if he works in the sewer for the rest of
his life! Me marry Jim Donovan! Not if
What is he doin' in there with father"
with wave of her hand toward the par
lor, ''every night? ! can't get anything
out of you You treat me Ike baby,
you do!'
'It's-it's your fathers invintion that
they do be talkin about, and Kittie,
Kittie, I'm afeared-"
"Of what? Amt things goin' all
right"
''They were; but Jim Donovan, in-in
some way-Och. child, don't be after
lookin' so wild!-has got hold of your
fathers drawin's. You were niver told;
but it's from him that the moneys COM
in to git out the patent. How he got
hold of the drawin's | don't know, and
your father won't talk, but he won't give
them up unless you"
''Then he'll never give them up, be-
cause We'll lose every stitch we've got
before I'll marry him! So you all thought
I'd be the sacrifcir' daughter, did you,
fallin' on my fathers neck and tellin'
him I'd do whatever he wanted me to?
Well, I'm none Of your story book girls,
let me tell you, and my father"
whist! kittie, dearie, your fathers
jist turnin in the gate; and it's in no
good humor he is, either, from the bang
he gave it. For the love of hivin, don't
be ansWerin' him back; and git that
dawg out of the house! He's powerful
set against him.
more respectable company than Jim
Donovan"
who's talkin' about Jim Donovan not
bein' respectable? Of coorse, it's you, is
it Kittie? You'd better be kapin' civil
tongue in your head whin you mintion
Jim Donovan. Do you hear me?"
''1'll talk as like about him! know
now why you're forcin' me to take him,
and nc good will it be dom you, let me
tell you, father" the rage died out of
the girls eyes and her chin quivered pitt
fully. Father, why did you put your
self in that mans power? Why didn't
you go to Mr.. Bryant at the gas office if
you wanted money for your invention?"
'Ho, ho' Mr.. Bryant, is it? Are you
daffy? To be laughed at, Ell? Be COB,
no! Do you imagine he'd think this ovid
brain of mine could invint anything? Jim
Donovan was the only wan put amy
stock by it and helped me out.
Helped your grunted Mrs. Mullin.
''Yis, he's helped you lot. Helped
himself to Everything you've got!"
But, father, why has he got your
DRAWN s-why does he keep"
,n He kapes thin bekase he owns thin.
That's why"
Father"
''Yis, you kin father all you want to.
It's you that did it whin you told him
couple of weeks ago that you wouldn t
be takin' him for your man. | signed an
agreement, turnin' the invintion to him,
and"
But why, Why"
''To kape the roof over your head;
there's another why for you. He's
got a mortgage on it and-Kittie, child,
you'll not be afther lettin' me lose me
patent that I've shaved over, will you,
dearie? I'll git Everything back if you
Jist say the word. Jim Donovan will not
be maxim you bad man."
stop it, father!" Kittie blazed away.
'1'll not marry Jim Donovan, and there's
for you once for ALL Marry man, will
l, thal'll stoop to such dirty tricks to get
girl? Not for me! I'll stick to Terry
Burke; and the invention and the house
and everything can go-Don't be putin
your foot to that dog, either; he's mine
till Terry comes home.
''Thin, by the sufferin' saints, he'll not
stay in this house! Stick to Terry Burke,
Ell! Stick, then, but that ugly cur goes"
Apparently Kittie was her usual buoy
ant self that evening as she lowered
around the porch where her father and
Jim Donovan sat smoking; only-a little
kinder than usual to Donovan. 1t was
only her mother, ironing in the kitchen,
who noticed the smouldering fire in the
blue eyes and the look of intense hatred
that flashed into them when, unobserved,
she looked at Jim Donovan, hatred
that seemed to be shared by Patsy, TIE
bulldog. Tim Mullin had had to back
down when it comes to putting Patsy
out. The dog seemed unusually vicious,
on the alert, emitting low growl when
in the vicinity Of Donovan, growl that
ended in savage snarl as the man reach
ed out and gave him an ugly kick.