The daily Alaskan., 1914-05-27
How a Curate' s Daughter Became a MarchiOneSs
By EDITH V ROSS

III a YldrCnlOnGSS Il III By EDITH V ROSS Il | One day when the Marquis of Bally- ! shannon was hunting, hot and thirsty, he came to a well from which a girl
 was drawing water. Dismounting, he went toward her and asked her for ! drink. She told him that she would l be happy to give him one, but there
 was no cup at hand. The marquis said that he would drink from the bucket. l At this the girl made a grimace, look ] ing from the marquis to the bucket as much as to say, Its no fit thing for
 a gentleman to drink from" Then, making a cup of her two hands, she l dipped them in the bucket filled them l with tine cool water and offered the marquis a drink from the imprOyised cup.
 Though the girl was but a Coun- l try lassie her hands were beautifully 1 shaped and while the marquis was . drinking he looked up into her two ! ugufa .ycs ald drank of the soul be- i hind them us well as of the water with ] in her hands. Not a great deal of wa : ter can be held in such a cup certainly not enough to qucnch the thirst of . hot auC tired huntsman So the mar . 0ufs drank a number of times from the imr-oviseJ receptacle, and every time l he looked into the girls eyes til at 1 last hr drew drafts of love.
 When he was ashamed to drink any more le left kiss in the cup, with Grcw. mounted his horse and rode away. The gir stood looking after nfw tir he roarhrd the crest of rise . lu tine ground. when he turned, threw 1 Ter a klss from the tips of his fingers, l then descended the opposite side of the ] drcl;yitv aud was lost to sight ] Somehow after this the marquis could uoJ refrain from thinking of the lass, and the lass was constantly dreaming of the marquis But 1t was a long ] while before they met again. 1 There was war between landlord and tenant in those times, and all Ireland 1 was in 'cUmmodou. A landlord riding ] on 8 lonely road was shot; another re- 1 reiving an unknown visitor was found ] short time aftcrward stabbed to the heart At the height of the trouble l tine Marquis ut BallyshannOn was rid ! ing to his home one evening after ] dark when he saw a figure step from 1 the side of the Toad into the middle of it in front of him. On account of 1 the truub'Ous times he went armed, and. drawing al pistol from hls bolster, ! ho cooked it and aimed at the figure in ] the road
 i Don't shoot" came a wOman's voice, 1 spoken in a low tone. I'm here to warn you"
 ] "Who age youT asked the marquis. "Im the girl that made the cup Of 1 her two hands for you to drink from. Don't go any farther by the road. l Cross the field and go into y1u" place ! by the rear gate"
 ! "Whv should l do that?"
 1.-TWO men are waiting for you to you"
 The marquis made no reply to this : for a few minutes. He was thinking ] Presently be said:
 ] CT gm armed. Why should be turn
 ed from entering my own grounds at ] the froUtE'
 1 Because youu see no enemy. . Thrr'ra concealed"
 1 The gir by this time was standing very uoar the marquis. Bending down. ] b. kissed her, then turned his horse
 to the field. as she had advised, and, l crossing it. rode safely in through his rear gate. As he was doing so he heard a shriek. Turning, he rode back
 f0 the road. It was too dark for him 1 10 sec anything distinctly, but as he 1 left the field he heard a moan which
 Scemrd Co come from the road on
 which he had entered. Then he caught sight of dark substance lying in the road It was a woman.
 i "Who is it?" he asked.
 "Eath'eon.'
 He did not know the name, but he recognized the girl who had made the cup for him and had only a few min urrs before saved his life by warning . him. He did not doubt that she had paid tho penalty for doing so.
 Taking her up in his arms, he car rt,d brr-Ieadtug his horse by the brl- dle-back across the field, through the an., and into his home There he laid E.r on a lounge and sent one of his servants for a doctor The girl had been Int by DIudgeon and stunned. . When she was able to give an account
 of what had happened, she said that tue two men who were lying in wait for the marquis came on the ground a few minutes after he had left the road, and. finding Kathleen and assuming . that she had warned him, one of them struck her. But the other had inter
 rered and saved her from what would have been a fatal blow. Hearing a l horses ho0fbeats and not knowing who was approaching, they had made off just as the marquis returned,