Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-10
Copyright. 1918. by Dodd, Mead o. Company
cad man-and the man was Jerryl
By j. Hartley Manners

into O cha1r ana sat cnalCeTlnS Win
terror until she heard her father NOV.
ing In his room. She went to the door
and asked him to let her 60 In to him.
he opened the door and saw his little
Peg. wild eyed. pale and terror strick.
en-, standing on the threshold. The
look in her eyes terrified him.
"What is it, Peg. me darlin'? What
is itT"
She crept in and looked up into his
face with her startling eyes. and she
grasped him with both of her small
hands and In a voice dull and hopeless
cried dcspairingly:
~ dreamt he was dead-dead! An
I couldn't rache him. An he went on
past me-down the stream-with his
face upturned." The grasp loosened,
and lust us she slipped from him
O'Connell caught her in bis strong
arms and placed her gently on the sofa.
and she fell asleep.
Those first days following Pegs re-
turn found father and child nearer
each other than they had been since
that famous trip through Ireland when
he lectured from the back Of his his
torical cart.
She became O'Connelrs amanucnsis,
During the day she would 60 from
library to library in New York verify
ing data for her fathers monumental
work.
One evening some few weeks after
her return she was in her room pre-
pairing to begin her nights work with
her father when she heard the bell
ring. That was unusual. Their call
ers were few. She heard the outer
door open, then the sound Of q distant
voice mingling with her fathers.
Then came a knock at her door.
"There's somebody outside here to
see ye. Peg" said her father.
"Who is it, fathec?"
"a perfect s~thranger-to me. Be
quick now"
She heard her fathers footsteps go
into the little sitting room and then
the hum of voices.
Her father was talking. She opened
the door and walked in. A tall, bronzr
ed mar came forward to greet her
! I1tI ucd1I ulAlOS ololpSu oho Z
bled violently. The next moment Jer
r ry had cIasped her hand in both o
his.
"How are you. Peg?"
He smiled down at her as he uset
to in Regal villa. and behind the smile
there was a grave look in his darl
eyes and the old zone Of tenderness il
his voice.
, How are you, Peep" he repeated.
= I'm fine, Mr.. Jerry" she replied IN
Il daze. Then she looked at C'COnnell
and she hurried on to say:
This is my father, Sir Gerald
Adair."
"We'd introduced ourselves al
, ready" said O'Connell good naturally,
eying the unexpected visitor all the
while. "And what might ye be dom
: in New York;" he asked.
; ~ nave never seen America. l take
an Embellishments interest In what we
once owned
An lost through misgovernment-"
well, Wen say misunderstanding"
LAS they'll one day lose Ireland"
II hope not The two countries IN
derstand each other better every day
Tue bell rang again. Peg started tc
t 20, but O'Connell stopped her.
"It's McGinnis. This IS his night tc
call and tell me the politics OF the
h town. III take him into the next
room, Peg, until yer visitor is gone"
"Oh, please" said Jerry hurriedly
e and taking a step toward the door, "al
low me to call some otrer time"
"Stay where We are!' cried O'Con
nell. hurrying out as the bell rang
again.
Q II want to ask ye somethin', Sll
Gerald" she began.
jerry" he corrected.
"Please forgive me for what | sale
j. ! to We that day. 1t vas wrong of me
to say 1t. Yet it was Just what "
might have expected from me. Blu
6 ye'd been 80 fine to me-a little no
%body-all that wonderful month tina
it's hurt me ever since, an l didn'
dare write to ye. 1t would have look
ed like presumption from me. Blu
now that we've come here we've foun(
me out, an | want to ask yer pardon
an | wan to ask ye not 10 De angr.
with me-"
81 couldn't be angry with You. Peg
He paused. and as he looked at be
the reserve Of the held In, self contain
ed man was broken. He bent owe
her and said softly:
Peg, | love your
The room swan around her.
Was all her misery to cnd2
Did this man come back from tn
mists of memory because he loved her
She tried to speak, but nothing CAM
from her parched lips and frightened
thrOnt
Then she became conscious hi b,
was speaking again, and she listened
to him with all her Senses. with all he
8 heart and from her soul