The Yale expositor., 1913-04-17

kind you can bank on. Jacks a good,
straight boy Cornelia couldn't DO bet
ter"
That's what think, said the moth
er, who, however, looked grave and
worried. "Cornella's thirty. It's time
for her TO settle, and she'll make
good wife. They'll live here, too
There1l be no kicking UP or their
heads and going off to Europe or New
York and thinking themselves too
good to come back to California, ike
Maggie Duffy and her baronet. want
them here. / want to see some grand
! children round this house before die.
want to know where Cons money is
going to-"
She sighed. and II was obvious that
her heart was heavy.
yes" she said, ITS n good mar
riage and I'm pleased at it. Jacks
Roman Catholic but you can't have
everything down here in this world.
The Ryans were Protestants, almost
the only prominent Irish-American
family in San Francisco which be-
longed to that church Cornelius
Ryan had been a North-country man,
and went out with the Orangemen
when they paraded He had been firm
in his faith and so had his wife, and
with the Hibernian's violent devotion
to creed they had made public their
antipathy to the Church Of Rome and
their hopes that their children would
not make alliances with its members.
"Oh well" said Cannon with a
shrug of vague tolerance, "a mans be-
liefs don't matter. With woman it's
different thing. She brings up the
children and takes her religion hard.
Jack won't interfere with Cornelia
that way
Perhaps not" said the mother
There was a slight pause and then
she said with sigh:
We'll. thank God one Of my chill
dren's going TO marry as | want
She was gazing into the fire and did
not notice the quick look, sly and
piercing, that her companion shot at
her. The conversation had suddenly
, without any effort of his. fallen upon
the subject to which he had intended
, directing it.
, yes" he said, looking away from
her, you've had one disappointment
, That's enough"
, Disappointment" she echoed in
: loud voice. DISAPPOINTMENT? I've
. lost my son; lost him as if he wa:
! dead.-worse than if he was dead. TO
. then I'd know he was happy and SAT-
, somewhere.
!. 1t was a cry of pain. Rachel mourn
. ing for her child. The note of feelini
4 in II checked the remark on Cannon
/ lips. he understood what her sunel
ing was and respected it.
O why, Bill Cannon" she went or
turning the perturbed fierceness OF he
@ face on him, how often do you thin
o / see my boy? What ties do yo
:. think he has with his home? lie cam
up here after he'd got back from Ante
n lope, but before that I'd only seen hin
r once In six weeks
n That's pretty hard" he commented
q his elbow on the arm of the chair, hi
r chin sunk in the cup Of his up-curle
n hand That's pretty tough. / dtdn
IS know it was as bad as that.
II Nobody knows anything about hin
o He won't let them. He won't let m'
n He's proud, and trying to hide it al
q That's the reason he comes up here
seldom. He knows can see into hin
n see through him. clear through hin
and he don't want me to see how mi
e cradle he is"
I oh" said the old man movin
d slightly and raising his eyes TO look
her. The interjection was full OF ST
nifcance, pregnant with understan
! ing. appreciation and enlightenmen
He was surprised himself. He ha
thought. and had understood fro
Dominck, that no one. especially I
one OF his own people, know of Il
young mans domestic infelicitie
Neither of them was shrewd enough
r. realize that the mother would cues
IA would know by instinct.
" "And what do you suppose he can
"a UP for that once?" pursued Mrs. Rya
IN you could guess a lot of times b.
N you'd never strike il. He came |
Y here the night of my ball TO ask II
- to give him an invitation for his wife
3 She stared at her visitor with h
z face set in stony hardness. har
N ness reminiscent Of that which HI
\. marked it when Dominick had ask
for the invitation. Cannon saw 1t al
checked the remark that rose to b
IN lips. He was going to say: "Wl
\ didn't you give it to him!" and
Il saw that II was too light CONNIE
for what had been tragic occasio
All he did was to utter grunt tn
might have meant anything and W
49, consequently safe.
~ That's what his marriage has do
for him, and that's the state that wo
an an has ground him down to. She
ne worked on him till she'd got him
come up here and ask for 1t 4
he minutes before the people began
nd arrive! That's what she made h
do"
lat And you wouldn't give IT." he
ne. CURED mildly. inwardly surprised,
we no had been often before. at the r;