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

DEck managed to read the letter with
out great difficulty. as the writing was
almost as precise % print The sight
of it caught his heart like a warm
hand and pressed il. This was the
substance of the letter:
My Dear Friend:
Il have wanted 10 visit you In pris-
on, but my mother has forbidden it.
and so, even if l could be let to enter.
| must not disobey her. have not
read the papers giving an account of
your trial. | 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 will 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 liv-
ing a 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.
Il think l never saw my mother SO
troubled In spirit as She is at this
time OF course. She could not feel MS
do about you. 1t isn't that which
makes her sad and haggard; it is that
we are leaving Ireland behind
Yes she and are saying goodHy
to Ireland That's why | think she
might have let me see you before we
went; but since IL must not be, well.
then. it must not But we shall meet
again. In my soul l know that ON
the hills somewhere far oil, 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
TO my Uncle Bryan Bryan Llyn. IN
Virginia. A letter has come from him
urging us TO make car 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 90 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:
1--WE shall know your fate only
through the letters that will follow
US. but I viii not believe I'm your bad
luck. Listen to newly don't Won
come to America also? Oh. think it
overt Don't believe the worst wifi
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,
Nearly all those men In America who
fought under Washington ana won
We're born in these islands. They took
with them to that far land the mem
DRY and love @f these old homes. You
aud | would have fought for England
and with the British troops, because
We detest revolution. Here. in Ire
land, we have seen its evils; and YET
il 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 mat the
freedom fought for by the American
states was well won.
so keep this matter in your mind,
MS my mother and ] win soon he gone
She would not let me come 10 you'll
think 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 50. bust
ness. / know my mother has suffered
know Eer married life was unhappy.
md that her husband-my father
died many year ago, leaving "A dark
trail Of regret behind him; but. You
see, never knew my 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 Co. | will keep
looking back 10 the prison where lies.
charged with an evil crime. of which
he IS not guilty. a young man for
whom I shan always carry the spirit
Of good friendship.
"Do not believe all will not 20 well.
The thing to DO is TO keep the courage
Of o., hears and the faith Of our
souls. and ! hope ] always shall
believe In you, and, believing. ! say
gOOd.hy. / saw farewell In tine GREAT