The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-11-12
Terrence O'Connen Proposes

~ 4NAVAAN
By IRENE HUNT
Published by Special Arrangement With The
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate,
Incorporated
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO
Like a bride in her rich adornin,,"
there Inc was something in Kathleen's
than she would have had me know
as she sang that, and I felt like a
spying gossip as I watched her. I was
angry at myself for knowing her secret;
I was even a. little angry with Lizzie
for her garrulous tongue.
,I BIT on ne couldn't be long angry with
cited by genuine affection and SINGER
ity; her sharpness 20 offset by lovable
wit and kindlinesS-we raised our eye
brows sometimes and pressed our lips
pretty tightly together at others, but
we liked her immensely. For it was
fering the loan of her small savings
to pay for the help we had to have in
getting our young Susan safely landed;
It vas Lizzie who all but burned Joss
sticks to the Grim Reaper when my
great aunt Agatha died, leaving me
five hundred precious dollars, and it
vas this same Lizzie who then went
Bills and my duty by burning a CRATE
full candle to the old lady'S memory.
And we certainly could feel nothing
but tenderness for her when the blow
of Kathleen:s leaving fell upon her
faithful head.
sight of Lizzie's plain face drawn with
%beWildered trouble touched me deeply.
Bill said that I divided my time into
emotional turmoil for first one sister
and then the other, but I noticed that
he was mighty tender toward Lizzie
in those days. 1t happened like this.
There was a joint letter for the two
of them n night. From Terrence
coming to America for a visit, and
where in America should he be heading
for but Mrs. Fish's light housekeep-
ing rooms in Chicago.
He said that it was important for
him to see them; that too many. years
had already gone by before his de;
as if Terrence O'Connell had some
thing on his mind, all right. Bill
thought maybe he'd just finished a
1O-leSSon curse on How to Propose
Gracefully-Results. Guaranteed or
Money Refunded"
Lizzie and Kathleen were delighted
Lizzie doing all the talking, OF course
and Kathleen sitting quietly with smil-
ing and sometimes tear-wet eyes:
"To think we'll be SEEM him
straight from the old home, Susan
she said to me, and I put my arm about
her shoulders as she spoke; 1t Seemed
so plain that she wanted her love OF
home to mask her love TOR terrence.
5 - -,o~lor. r thNl1rht IT. isn't a
pleasant thing to have ones friends
know that the man one loves is tongue
tied on the subject. That night when
7 praved that Bill would always love
me as much as he did then and that
little Susan wouldn't take the Whoop--
ing cough she'd been exposed 10, !
added q petition Tor ,! katn amake Tera
renee O'Connell propose this time
Lizzie scrubbed and secured their
already immaculate. rooms and Y
them an extra polish for luck. she
even commenced baking favor1te dlsheS
of Terrence's, early as 1t WaS-.to geG
her hand in, again" n told usaat ~
she seWed as if her life depended on
new cuffs for Kathleen's dress or on
a dainty bonnet for my Susan.
"Terrence will think she's the broth
of a Colleen" she assured me En-
couragingly as she crooned over tne
hahv. 7And she is that too, OF the truth
never fell from my lips, and a com1or
she's goin' to be to me when the sea Is
between all of us and kathleeh.
Her face sobered a little at n WordS'
but frightened after a mlnute. We eu,
then. twill be blessing enough 70 know
she's happy with Terrence, ana IN
home of her own back in the old
try. And certain twill be a good reaSot,
for me to work and save o Inc uay
ri he goin' back to see them. Ihere
wasn't a doubt in her mlnd aoouO
Terrence's intentions on this vlslt.
She was talking along in such q VEN
as this on the evening that hat rayar
came home with her news. I a never
seen kathleen animated before, n
the Glowing radiance Of her little,
h~earteshaped face with its great plue
ewes sent a thrill of pleasure through
me as I looked up at her. ..,,u,
"Lizzie-Susan," she gaspeo' Ill
going back to old Ireland" She tnre%
her arms about her sister, ana lausiieo
like a delighted child. ,,o
I figured it out in a flash|,IerreIce
O'Connell had come to America s9one s
thsn he had said he would, he'd ar
rived in Chicago, had gone stralght ~
kathleen, he had made himself maste !
of that faltering tongue OF ms ai4e s,;ra
: T1 was rioht that I felt a little superior
to Lizzie who was still looking at her
Sls you're goin' back in 10 days, K Kath n
leen? And with Terrence reaay NO w
leave 4 R,sl ! nd; c eKG aS be- be- dom a thing
like that. Macushla."
Kathleen's voice was like a S n
"R,,t' Lizzie. darlin', I am going" IN
said AID 10 see Terrence would nave been zen
a JOY, but this IT be- be back smo hem on the the
afn s T s egg at fv zs!h a! sna SOi 'sn ny
chaun-this will be hea 1ost
than I'VE thought to come these laS'
weary years" .,.ooL ot
She seated herself on q b masS sisters
Lizzie's feet, and fonoieo he1
L.~J nc che smoke.