Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-02-25

His Other Sister, Mrs. Chichester.
together they went running down the
street toward the little patch of green
where the children played and among
whom Michael was a prime favorite.
Sitting. his head in his hands. his
eyes staring into the past. O'Connell
was facing the second great tragedy
of his life.
While OConnell sat there in that lit
tie room in New York trying to decide
Pegs fate u man who had played
some considerable part in O'Connells
life lay in a splendidly furnished room
in a mansion in the west end of Lon
don-dying.
Nathaniel Kingsnorth's twenty years
of loneliness and desolation were COM
ing to an end. What an empty. arid
stretch of time those years seemed to
him as he feebly looked back ON them.
After the tragedy of his sisters reck-
less marriage he deserted public life
entirely and shut himself away in his
country house. except for few weeks
i'll London occasionally when his pres
ence was required on one or another of
the boards of which he was director
The Irish estate, which brought about
all his misfortuncs. he disposed OF Mt
ridiculously low figure. He said
he would accept any bid. however
small, so that he could sever all con
ncction with the hated village.
a
lie neither saw nor wrote to any mem
Der of his family.
His other sister. Mrs. Chichester.
wrote to him from time to time telling
him one time of the birth Of boy,
two years later OF the advent OF u
girl.
Ningsnorth did not answer any of
her letters.
In no way diSmayed Mrs. ChicfleS,
ter continued TO write periodically.
She wrote him when her son Alaric
went to school and also when he Went
TO college .Nlarc seemed To absorb
most of her interest He was evident.
~ her favorite child She wrote more
seldom OF her daughter, Ether. and
when she did happen 10 refer to her
she dwet principally on her beauty
and her accomplishments. Five years
before an envelope in deep mournin.
came to IlingSnorth and on opening
it he found II letter from his sister nc,
quainting him with the melancholy
news that Mr. Chichester had ended Il
life of usefulness ut the English bar
and had died. leaving the family quite
comfortably off.
kingsnorth tccgraphed his condo
lences and left instructions for .
suitable wreath to be sent to the f,i,
neral. But he did not attend it, MOI
est wish to see his sister nor did he
encourage any suggestion on her part
TO visit him.
When he was stricken with an i'll
hess from which no hope Of recovery
vas 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 it's hant
to snatch him from n life he had Ell
joyed SO little his thoughts. colored
with the fancies of Il tired. sick brain
kept turning constantly to his dead
sister Angela.
From time to time down through the
years he had softencd. gentle re
membrance Of her. When the news %!
her death came. furious and unrelent
ing as he had been toward her. hel
passing softened it, Had he know
in time he would haze insisted on hel
burial in the Kingsnorth vault. But
she had already been Inferred in New