The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-15
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His other sister, Mrs Chichester, wrote to him from time to time telling him one time of the birth of a boy, two years later of the advent of girl.
 Kingsnorth did not answer any of her letters.
 In no way dismayed Mrs Chiches- ter continued to write periodically She wrote him when her son Alaric went to school and also when he went to college. Alaric seemed to absorb most of her interest. He was evident ly her favorite child. She wrote more seldom of her daughter, Ethel, and when she did happen to refer to her shes .dwe1t principally on her beauty and her accomplishments. Five years before an envelope in deep mourning came to Kingsnorth, and on opening it he found letter from his sister ac- quainting him with the melancholy news that MT Chichester had ended life of usefulness at the English bar and had died, leaving the family quite comfortably off.
 Kingsnorth telegraphed his condo fences and left instructions for. suitable wreath to be sent to the fu- neral. But he did not attend 1t, nor did he at any time express the slight est wish to see his sister, nor did he encourage any suggestion on her part to visit him.
 When he was stricken with an ill., ness from which no hope of recovery was held out to him he at once began to put his affairs in order, and his lawyer spent days with him drawing up statements of his last wishes for the disposition of his fortune.
 With death stretching out its hand to snatch him from a life he had en- loved so little his thoughts. colored with the fancfes of a tired, sick brain, kept turning constantly to his dead sister Angela.
 From time to time down through the years he had a softened, gentle re membrance of her. When the news of her death came, furious and gSssIent- ing as he had been toward her, her passing softened it. Had he known in time he would have insisted on her bxriaI in the Kingsnorth vault. But she had already been inferred in New York before the news of her death reached him.
 The one bitter hatred of his life had been against the man who had taken his sister in marriage and in so doing had killed all possibility of Kingsnorth succeeding in his political and social aspirations.
 He heard vaguely of daughter. He took no interest in the news.
 Now, however, the remembrance of his treatment of Angela burnt into him. He especially repented oe that merciless cable, You have made your bed; lie in it." It haunted him through the long hours of his slow and painful illness. Had he helped her, she might have been alive today, and those bitter reflections that ate into him night and day might have been replaced by gem tier ones and so make his end the more peaceful
 He thought of Angela's child and wondered if she were like his poor dead sister. The wish to see the child became an obsession with him.
 One morning, after a restless, fever ish night, he sent for his lawyer and told him to at once institute inquiries find out if the child was still living and if so where
 This his lawyer did He located O'Conneu in New York through a friend of his in the Irish party and found that the child was living with him in rather poor circumstances. He communicated the result of his inqui- rfes to Kingsnorth. That day a letter was sent to O'ConnelI asking him to allow his child to visit her dying un- cle O'Conneu was to cable at Kings north's expense, and if he would con sent the money for the expenses of the journey would be cabled immedi- ately. The girl was to start at once, as MT. Kingsnorth had very little longer to live
 When the letter had gone Kingsnorth drew a breath of relief. He 1onged to see the child He would have to wait impatfent1y for the reply. Perhaps the man whom he had hated all his life would refuse his request. If he did well, he would make some provision in his will for her in memory of his dead sister,
 The next day he altered his entire will and made Margaret O'Connen a special legacy. Ten days later cable came:
 consent to my daughters visiting you.
 FRANK OWEN O'CONNELL.
 The lawyer cabled at once, making all arrangements through their bankers in New York for Miss O'Connell's jour ney.
 That night Kingsnorth slept without being disturbed He awoke refreshed action he had done for many years, How much had he robbed himself ot all his life if by doing so little he was repaid so muchi
 O'ConneIl had hard struggle witt Peg before she would consent to Ieay, him. She met all his arguments witt | | LI.s --u