Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-02-18
CHAPTER. l.,
The Irish Aeitator and AnoeIa.

me irish Agitator and Angela.
NAlTH, there's no man SAYS
more and knows less than YER
III self, I'm thinkin'.'
About Ireland, yer. river
ence?" 'e' ei
And everything else, Mr.. O'Con-
nell"
is that criticism or just temper, ia
her?"
Its both, Mr.. O'Connell."
Sure it's the good judge We must be
or ignorance. Father Cahill."
AND what might that mane?"
\ live so much with it, father"
I'm lookin' at it and ~listenin' to it
now, Frank O'Connell."
Then it's a miracle has happened.
rather. 10 see and hear oneself at
the same time is indade a miracle"
Don't provoke the man of God!"
Not for the wurrld." replied the 9th
er meekly. "bein' mesef a child of Sa-
tan"
And that's what We are. And we'd
nave others like yerself. But We won't
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sthrong stick in me hand"
O'Connell looked at him with a mis-
chlevous twinkle in his blue-gray ewes:
Yer %eloquence seems to made some
thin to back it up. I'm thinkin'."
Father Cahill brcathed hard. He
was a splendid type of the Irish parish
priest of the old school. Gifted with
a vivid power Of e%loquence as a preach
er and a heart as tender as a woman's
toward the poor and the wretched, he
mad been for many years idolized by
T the whole community of the village OF
NJ, in County Glare. But of late there
was a growing feeling Of discomfort
among Il younger generation. They
lacked the respect their elders so will
ingly gave. They asked questions in
stead of answering them. They be-
gan to throw themselves. against Fa-
Their Cahilps express wishes Inc COM
mands, into the fight for home rule
under the mastery craftsmanship of
Charles Stuart Parnell. Already more
than one prominent speaker had come
into he little village and sown the
seeds Of temporal and spiritual unrest.
Father Cahill opposed these men to
the utmost of his power. He saw, as
so many farsighted priests did, the
legacy Of bloodshed and desolation
that would follow any direct action by
the Irish against the British govern
ment. Though the blood Of the patriot
beat in Father Cahills veins. the well
being OF the people who had grown up
with him was near to his heart. He
was their priest, and he could not bear
to think Of men he had known as chill.
dren being beaten and MANNED by con-
stabulary and sent to prison afterward
in the fight for self government.
To his horror that day he met Frank
Owen O'Connell, one of the best
known of all the younger agitators. in
the main street Of the little village.
O'Connelps backsliding had been one
: of Father Cahill's bitterest regrets.
He had closed O'Connelrs fathers
eyes in death and had taken care of
the boy as we'll as be could. But at
the age of fifteen the youth left the
village that had SO many wretched
memories Of hardship and struggle and
worked his way to Dublin. 1t was
many years before Father Cahill heard
of him again. He had developed
meanwhile into n of the most daring
of all the fervid speakers in the sacred
cause of Irish liberty.
And Father Cahill was going to hear
from Frank Owen O'Connell again,
though little did he reckon on the i'm
portance that the present young and
comparatively untutored reformer
would achieve.
n y
Wilberforce Kingsnorth, wealthy.
imperious Englishman, left three chill
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