Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-23

took his hand in hers and looked into
his eyes, but said nothing with her
lips
And then and there in her little
heart was born love that was des-
tined to strengthen with the years,
though she did not see him.
When the two families landed In
America they separated, the Mona
hans going on to a farm near New
York city, the Kellys going west. Den
mis- Monahan was not fitted for farm
ing, and his taste for machinery soon
led him to the metropolis, where great
manufacturers furnished employment
for so many skilled mechanics. There
he became an engineer. The Kellys
settled In a city, where the father en-
gagged in merchandising and Eileen
entered a parochial school. She was
q good scholar. and when she came
to be sixteen years old she decided to
become a teacher. SO her father sent
her to a normal school, where, at nine
teen, she was graduated with honor.
But the seed that had been planted
in her heart for the boy who had saved
her from the merciless ocean budded
with herself. In her there was an IN
satisfied something-what she could
not tell-that never left her. A few
letters written at different times had
passed between the Monahans and the
Kellys, but these had ceased within a
few years after their landing in Amer
ica, and the families had lost all trace
of each other. .
One winter Eileen, who had become
a teacher, worked too hard, and, since
her health was giving way, her IA
Their decided that she must rest, with
a change OF scene and climate. She
was to go to a southern seaport and as
the warm weather came on proceed
northward to New York and thence
home. She started late in February,
remained few weeks at a sea beach
in Virginia, then proceeded through
Washington, where she spent Few
days, striking the metropolis In the
middle of March.
The spring came early that year, and
New York's skyscrapers and monu-
ments of engineering skill glittered in
a warm sunshine. Eileen stopped with
acquaintance who told her that with
in a few days a celebration of st. Pat
rick's day would take place for which
greater preparations had been made
than ever before and she must surely
see It.
Eileen was not only q good Catholic,
but her father and mother had
| brought her up with a keen reverence
| for the patron saint of her native land.
She was not averse to seeing him hon
ored by the loyal Irish Americans of
a great city like New York. Her
friends rented a window under which
the parade would pass, and on the
morning of the gala day they all took
possession of it.
1t is the waiting for something that
is coming that sharpens the Zest for
it when it arrives. The party remain
ed at the window an hour before there
came a faint sound of drums and mar
| tial music far up the street, suggest
ing vision of prancing horses, glitter
ing banners and uniformed men march
ing in line. Then came a platoon OF
policemen, followed by a brass band,
behind which caracoled the fractions
i horses of the grand marshal and his
staff.
Society after society passed, each
bearing its banner surmounted by the
sacred emblem of the cross. Then
there was one of those halts that oc-
cur in parades, and right under the
window where Eileen and her friends
were sitting the marshal of one of the
societies waited, soothing his horse.
which seemed impatient at the delay.
As Eileen sat with her eyes fixed
upon this young man with green
sash across his shoulders and baton
in his hand something strange grew
I'D within her She seemed to have
been touched by a wand which had
eliminated years and placed her back
on the ship at the moment she had re-
gained consciousness after her acct
dent. And between the man on horse
back and her there was something
akin to that which passed between her
and the boy who had saved her.
At the moment some one beside her
said in reply to a question, THAT So
ciety is the United Engineers under
Dennis Monahan."
| n
looked up at the window and saw a
pair of eyes fixed upon him which
were saying, Come to me-" There
was something familiar in the girls
face, though he did not remember to
have ever seen her before. Then her
face broke into a smile. and he knew
there must be some past meeting be-
tween them. Casting a glance ahead
and seeing the way blocked Tor some
distance, he dlsmounted, left his horse
with a man in the ranks and. going to
the window which was on the ground
floor, looked up at Eileen.
You know me" he said, but ] can't
place you"
Il am the girl you saved from that
awful ocean,"
Eileen remained in New York till
summer came, then returned to the
west. but not for long. When the
schools broke up for the season it was
announced that Miss Kelly would not
teach the next year since she was to
+ be married.