The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1921-09-23

Of 1t caught his heart. like q warm
hand and pressed 1t. This was the
substance Of the letter:
my Dear Friend:
II have wanted to vie't you In pris-
on, but my mother has forbidden 1t.
and so, even If I could be let to enter,
1 must not disobey her. have not
read the papers giving m account o.
your trial. l only know you are
charged with killing 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 will grind
you between the millstones Of guilt
and dishonor; but II the law should
call you guilty. still will not believe
Far away l Will think Of YOU, and
believe in you, dear, masterful. mad
man friend. Yes. you are n madman,
for Michael Clones told me-faith, hA
loves you we'll that you've been liv.
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 1t.
81 think / never saw my mother so
troubled in spirit as she is at this
time. OF course, she could not feel as
i do about you. 1t isn't that which
makes her sad and haggard; 1t is that
We are leaving Ireland behind.
"Yes, she and l are saying good.by
TO Ireland. That's why / think she
might have let me see you before we
went: but since II must not be. well.
then. II must not. But we shall meet
again. In my sOul ] know that on
the hills somewhere fAr of, as on the
FIRST day we met, we shal! meet each
other once more. Where are we 60
ing7 Oh. very far! We are going
to my Uncle Bryan-Bryan Llyn, in
Virginia. A letter has come frors. him
urging us to make our home with him.
You see. my friend"
Then followed the. stery which
Bryan Llyn had told b3r mother and
herself, and she wrote Of her mothers
decision t0cgo ont to the new. great
home which her uncle had made
among the cotten1fiel Of the South.
When she had finished that part Of the
tale, she went on a. fellows:
"We shall know your fate only
through the letters that Will follow
us, but I will not believe In your bad
luck. Listen to newly don't you
ceme to America also? Oh. think 1t
over! Don't Lelieye the worst will
come. When they relesse you from
prison. innocent and acquitted. cross
the ocean and set up your tent unde
the Etays and Stripes. Think OF It!
Nearly all those men I'm America VINO
fought under Washington and won
were born In these islands. They took
with theta to that far land the Iuen.
ory and love Of these old homes. You
and I would have fought for England
and with the British troops. because
We dctest revolution. Here, In Ire
land. We have seen its evils; and yet
II We had fought for the Union Jack
beyond the mountains Of Maine and
In the lonely woods. we should, BE-
lieve. In the end have said that the
freedom fought for BY the American
states was well won.
$50 keep this matter In your mind,
as nay mother and I will soon be gone.
She " ouid not let me come to you'll
turbed as when ] asked her-and she
forbade me to write to you; but I dis
obey her. Wen, this II q sad bust
ness. ! know nay mother has suffered.
I know her married life was unhappy,
and that her husband-my father
died many q year ago, leaving q dark
trail Of regret behind him: but. you
go. ] never knew my father. That
vai al long ago. and Il u o hundred
times best fofgsttea.
"Our ship sails for Virginia In tareo
Aays, and must 20. will kseV
iseking back b he prison where hes,
charged With sn ssil crime. q WhtoA
- b net guilty.. . yssnI nan fss
vAem I sAall always carry ths spiSat
q gssA fssanAsAiD.
DO not beiSsva ah wili net - ws3
Ths thing - - b - ksep tAe osssaes
e eur Hearts asA tAs faieA q sas
souls. asd I hsps always shah. I
beiisvs u ysa, a1A. beiisviAG ~
Osod-by. I ~ fAsswSd b the great
. Aeps that ss0eAsw. seDewhero. ~
shall help each othse o. the w q
M. God b With yeui
= am Jour friend.
'SHEII4A LLYN."
~P. 81 beg you to remember that
America II q good place for Q young
man to live IN and succeed"
Dyck read the letter with . wonder
ful slowncss. He realized that BY
happy accident-it could be nothing
else--Mrs. Llyn had been able to keep
from her daughter the fact that the
man who had been Killed In the tavern
by the river was her father.
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