Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-09-10

The light Of the cell was dim, bat
Dgck managed TO read the letter With
out great difficulty. as the writing was
almost as precise as print. The sight
of it caught his heart like a warm
hand and pressed it, This was the
substance of the letter:
My Dear Friend:
i have wanted 10 visit you In pris-
on. but my mother has forbidden fl,
and So, even if 1 could be let to enter.
| must not disobey her. I have not
read the papers giving an account of
your trial. l only know you are
charged with killing a bad man, noto-
rious in Dublin life, and that many
think he got his just deserts in being
killed.
Il will not believe that your fate Is
an evil one, that the law viii grind
you between the millstones of guilt
and dishonor; but if the law should
cal! you guilty, l still will not believe
Far away l will think of you, and
believe in You, dear, masterful mad
man friend. Yes. you are a mailman.
for Michael Clones told me-faith, he
loves you well that you've been Nv
ing gay life in Dublin since you
came here, and that the man you are
accused of killing was In great part
the cause of it.
Il think l never saw my mother SO
troubled In spirit as She is at this
time OF course, she could not feel MS
l do about YOU. Ii isn't that which
makes her sad and haggard it is that
we are leaving Ireland behind.
Yes, she and / are saying cood-Hy
to Ireland That's why | think she
might have let me see YOU before we
went; but since 1t must not be, well
then, it must net. But we shall meet
again. In my soul l know that on
the hills somewhere far off, as on the
first day we met we shall meet each
other once more. Where are we GO
ing? Oh, very far, We are going
10 my Uncle Bryan Llyn. IN
Virginia. A letter has come from him
urging us to make Cur home with him.
You see my friend"
Then followed the story which
Bryan Llyn had told her mother and
herself and she wrote of her mothers
decision to 20 out to the new. great
home which her uncle had made
among the cotton fields Of the South
When she had finished that part Of the
tale. she went on as follows:
we shall know your fate only
through the letters that will follow
us but I will not believe In your bad
luck Listen 10 Newly don't YOU
come to America also? Oh, think il
over! Don't believe the worst will
come. When they release you from
prison, innocent and acquitted. cross
the ocean and set up your tent under
the Stars and Stripes, Think of It'll
Nearly all those men in America who
fought under Washington and won
were born i'm these islands. They took
with them TO that fan land the mem
Org and love eli these old homes. You
and l would have fought for England
ana with the British troops because
We detest revolution. Here. in Ire
land we have seen it's evils. aud yet
If we had fought for the Union Jack
beyond the mountains Of Maine and
in the lonely woods, we should, l be-
lieye, in the end have said that the
freedom fought for by the American
states was wen won
$50 keep this matter in your mind
as my mother and ] will soon be gone
She would not let me come to you--I
think I have never seen her so dis
turbed as when ] asked her-and she
forbade me TO write TO you; but I dis
obey her Well this is a sad busl-
ness ] know my mother has suffered
| know her married life was unhappy.
md that her husband-my father
died many a year ago, leaving dark
trail of regret behind him. but, you
see, ] never knew nay father That
was all long ago, and It is a hundred
times best forgotten.
our ship sails for Virginia In three
days, and l must go / wiIl keep
looking back 10 the prison where lies,
charged with an evil crime, Of which
he IS not guilty. a young man for
whou / shall always carry the spirit
Of good friendship.
do not believe an VIII not 90 well
The thing to do is to keep the courage
Of our hears and the faith Of our
souls, and I hope ] always shall
believe Ia you, and, believing I say
good-by / say farewell N tie great
hope that somehow, somewhere. we
shall help each other ON the way OF
Efe God be with YOU
u am your friend,
"SHEIIA LLYN."
"p. 81 beg you to remember that
America is a good place for q young