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I if lii !t 2 MARY LEE, THE YANKEE IN IRELAND. BY PAUL PEPPERGRASS, ESQ. Autbor of "Shandy McGuire," wife," etc. 4 |j ft li si'i I li? fe* "The Bpae- CHAPTER XV.—(Continued.) "I know it, cousin. I know it. You have been exceedingly kind, and I ain't ftgoin to forget your kindness either but just look how the caBe stands. Here I hare spent already five hundred dollars for the note, that ain't worth a red cent. Of course, when you recommended me to buy it, you thought otherwise, and so I took your advice. Well, there is four hundred dollars and over to Else Curley and bow can I tell but the scheming old witch is 'doing' me all the while? That and my travelling expenses, and loss of time beside, will amount to a pretty con siderable sum, let me tell you." "It ia a pretty round, I admit,'* mut tered Hardwrinkle. "Well, it's just a Bum,'' said Weeks, "that I've made up. my mind I ain't agoin to lose for nothing. I'm deter mined to have the girl—no mistake about that. And if she ain't willing to marry me oue way, she shall another." "Ah, indeed what mean you by that, cousin?" "Well, I've got my notions about it that's all. By jolly, I ain't agoin- home to pucksviile again empty-handed ,~~o&tch me at it!" "You wouldn't carry her off by force would you, eh?" said Hardwrinkle, dropping his voice to a whisper, and looking around the room to see if the doors wore closed. "The thing has been done," replied Weeks, "and pretty often to in this country of yours, if I ain't greatly mis take7i." "Yes, I admit it has. occasionally been done, But in this case I can hardly see how it could be accomplished without danger." ''Why, there's such a thing as a boat to be had, I guess, and the distance to cany her ain't so far that you can't find half a dozen stout fellows to do it I shouldn't like much, though, to go to these extremes if there was any possibil ity of obtaining her consent by other zneans. But have her I shall—no mis take about that," "Hush, hush!" ejaculated IJardwrin Ue "there's some one at thb door— come in." The door opened, and an active, mus culo looking man, of middle age, en tered a.ad advanced to the table at which XLirdwrinkle was sitting. He was the the officer of constabulary whom the sender had seen a few nights before at Castle Gregory, with Captain Peter ohain. "Ah, jfc'«5 you, is it?" exclaimed Hard -wicinkle, rising suddenly from his chair. "Well, .any news from Barry." He'8 arrested, sir, and now a prisoner in Tammy barracks." "What, arrested! eh! that's capital news. Please step to the next room excuse me, Mr. Weeks I'll return pres eently--" 1 'Go ahead—don't mind me," replied Weeks, drawing a cigar from his ease and preparing to light it.. "Now," said Hardwrinkle, carefully closing the door, "now for the details. Mr. Weeks' notions of these young rev olutionists don't- exactly harmonize with ours, you know, so it's just as well he don't hear our conversation on the sub ject. Now for your story." "Weil, sir, we crossed the ferry, as you suggested, proceeded on to Doe Cas tle, and thence to Kann Point. There Tfemetthe niaa who gave you the infor mation iksfc about Barry'B intention to escape—I forget his name—he's one of your tenants." "Carson, you mean." '*l\o, sir the man you sent down to spy about the lighthouse, you remember, the one *ho listened at Else Curley's &oo:?, and overheard the conversation between her and Barry about his going to Aranmore." "O, yes, yes Baker the Bible read" er." 4 'Baker—precisely—that's the man a pious soul he is. too.'' Very—very, indeed. He's a most excellent man, is Baker." 14Well, 4'He pip, 61 sir, we met him coming up from the shore, where he had been dis tributing tracts among the fishermen, by -way of an excuse. He told us he had 2ust seen Barry jump from a boat in company of three or four stout fellows, »nd enter one of the huts. They were all strangers to him, he said, except Barry himself, and another who seemed to be the most active of the party, and •whom he had seen before, but couldn't remember where." "Stop a moment did he describe hie dress or person?" did, but I paid little attention to it not thinking it a matter of much con sequence. It appears to me, though,he said something about his wearing a green jacket or a fur cap, or something to that ""•fleet. A **V' it JE The very man, sir that's Lanty Hanlon, if he's alive, and quite as dan gerous a man, too, as Barry." "Lanty Hanlon—impossible, sir. You mean the fellow against whom you is sued the warrant for the assault on Mr. Weeks?" "The identical person." "Pardon me—that cannot be, Mr. Hardwrinkle—Hanlon was seen at a cockfight in Kildrum not six hours ago." "I have no doubt of that," replied Hardwrinkle. -fBut, my dear sir, you little know what that villain is capable of doing. Why, sir, it was oncc eworn on oath before me, that this very Lanty Hanlon was seen at a wake in Crantin Glen, at a wedding in Ballymagahey, and at a christening in Callen, the self same night, and yet these places are seven miles apart, and nearly equi-dis tant from each other. But with respect to Barry, how did you succeed in arrest ing him?" "Simply enough, sir. We hired boat, got our men in, and lay at anchor some five or six fathoms from the beach, knowing well Barry and his party would endeavor to escape next morning at day break, by rowing along the shore as far as Horn head and there set sail for Aran more. It turned out just as we expected At the first peep of day, the party got into the boat and shoved off. They were ahead of us when they started, and we had gone clear out of sight of the fishermen's huts. Then, stretching to our oars, we soon came alongside, and grappled with irons we had taken with us for the purpose?" "Hah! andso secured him at last?" "Yes sir, wo secured him, but not without considerable difficulty." What! did he resist?" "Resist! yes as man never resisted be fore. It appears the crew tbat conveyed him to Eaim Point ieft him there, and returned home, confident he was out of all danger, and the fresh hands ap pointed to convey him to Aranmore were old men, hardly able to paddle an oar or handle a sheet. He was, therefore, left to depend almost entirly upon his own resources. The instant we laid hold of the gunwale of his boat, he sprang up in the stern sheets, and demanded what we meant by stopping him. 'I'm a queen's officer,' said I, 'and hold a warrant for your arrest,' 'Ah, a. queen's officer,' he repeated, glancing at my civilian dress. 'Indeed! Well, sir, take me if y©u can and cool ly drawing a pistol from his belt, he said to his men, 'Comrades, you'll find an other pair in my overcoat use them if necessary.' Then stepping across the thwarts, aud before I could rise from my seat, he suatclied the anchor from the bows of his boat, and with one hand swung it of he would a walking-stick into the bottom of ours. The effect was instantaneous: the sharp iron cut right through the thin sheathing of the little gig and in two minutes she filled £0 her water line. "Now, my lads,' he cried, 'loose the grapples, and away with them.5 "Good Heavens!" exclaimed Hard wrinkle: "his object was to sink you." '•'Of course it was—and a bold attempt he made to accomplish it. When I saw how desperate the case was likely to prove, I ordered my men to jump aboard and secure him at all hazzards, leaving our own boat to her fate and setting them, the example myself, I sprang into the stern, presented a pistol at his head, and commanded him to sur render, or I should instantly fire. I had hardly utttered the words, however, when the board on which I stood was struck from under me, and in another second I found myself in the water, plunging and grasping for something to lay hold of. By this time my men had succeeded iu scrambling over his boat'3 side: so they immediately took me in, and then unhooked the grapple to re lieve us of the sinking gig. But now that we did succeed in boarding him, we found ourselves in a greater difficulty than ever. Our firearms were entirely useless,—the powder being in the sea water,—and there stood the young out law, pointing a brace of pistols at our heads. 'Surrender,' said I: 'Icommand you, iu the name of the queen, to sur render instantly.' 'Ha, ha!' he laughed—'surrender to hounds like you! O, for the firpi earth to stand on, and a good throng to ken nel such cowardly dogs. A pistol bul let is too honorable a death for such drivelling slaves.' "This taunt stung me to the quick and calling on my men to rush on him in a body, sprang forward myself to seize him but, alas, I was again un fortunate, and fell flat on my face on the bottom of the boat. In another in stant his heel was on my neck," 'Lie there, dog I' he cried, crashing me till my eyes seemed to start from their sockets 'lie there, and die the only death you deserve.' But the brag gart, his turn, had little time to en joy his advantage for my men, seeing the danger I was in, and maddened by the fellow's scornful language, closed in upon him. As tbey rushed forward, he fired both pistols iu their faces, and two of them fell wounded beside me." "Dreadful!" exclaimed Hardwrinkle. 'Now,' cried I, rising from my dis graceful position, 'now, my men, hold him handcuff him kill him if he at itiefv 1 'v IRISH STANDARD: tempt to escape.' But my orders were of no avail, for he had sprung into the sea, and was making for the shore. "'He's gone, sir,'cried one of the men. 'Gone!' 'Yes there he is, with his coat off, swimming away from u& like a water dog.' 'What's to be done? what's to be done?' I cried in au agony of disappoint ment. 'Has no one presence of mind to think of some means to capture him? He's within half a gunshot of the bSach, and will reach it before we can get our oars into the rollocks.' "Just then the thought of the fire arms in his overcoat occurred to me, and snatching up the garment, I drew a holster pistol from its pocket, and aim ing as deliberately as I could iu a mo ment of such excitement, fired. The ball, as good fortune would have it, struck him on the right arm, and dis abled him. 'Now,' cried I, as I saw him sputter in the water like a wounded bird, 'now, my lads, to your oars, and pull for your lives—pull—pull—with all your might, or he sinks before we can reach him.' "In another minute we had taken him aboard, exhausted and bleeding, and there he lay in the boat's bows, without word or motion of any kind, till we reached the quay under Tamuy Bar racks." "Well, thank Heaven," said Hard wrinkle, "he's safe for the present at least, and to-morrow I sign his com mittal to Lefford jail. As for you, Mr. you have done your duty as a faithful servant of the crown, and shall not go unrewarded. And now let us re turn and carry the good news to Mr. Weeks. "My dear cousin," said Hardwrinkle, entering Weeks' room, followed by the officer of constabulary, "I have good tidings for you." "You have—eh?" "Yes, tidings of great, import." "Indeed—let's hear what they're like.'' "Why Randall Barry (your rival),'' he said, whispering the word in his ear, "is a prisoner in Tamuy Barracks.'' "Pshah—-you don't say so? Is it pos sible?" "A fact, sir." "On what charge, pray?" "Treason—treason against the state. You've heard all about him—have you not?' "Why, yes, I've heard of his being connected with some young revolution ists—that all." "Humph! you speak lightly of the matter, my' good cousin." "And I think lightly of it too," re plied Weeks, promptly, "so far as it may be regarded as a crime. Were I in his place, I should do precisely what he has done." "What, revolutionize the country?" "Yes, by crackie. It's full time, I should think, the people got rid of these old fogy monarchies of yours." "Ti these be your sentiments, my dear cousin," said Hardwrinkle, "they are very different, I must, coufess. from what I had expected of you." "Well, sir, they are my sentiments precisely—real true blue Yankee senti ments, and no mistake." "Well, well. I must acknowledge I was deceived in you, cousin, and I'm sorry for it. But we must postpone further discussion on the subject for the present. I see Rebecca aud her sisters out there on their way to Ballymagahey, and must speak to them a word or two of caution before they leave. Pray ex cuse me, Ephraim." "Go ahead, go ahead," replied Weeks, preparing to light another cigar—"go ahead, and don't mind me and the Yankee was left alone, at last, to enjoy the comfort of a quiet Havana. CHAPTER XVI. Mr. Weeks set out for Father Bren nan's. When ho arrived at the rever end gentleman's residence, he felt some what disappointed to learn from the servant that his master had gone some five or six miles on a sick call, and could not possibly return till late in the even ing. Resolving, however, to have an interview with the good priest as soon as possible, he drew a card from the richly-carved case he always had about him, and having written a request to that effect on the back of it with hia pencil, handed it to the servant, and then turned his horse's head in the di rection of Greenmount Cottage. Mrs. Motherly was sitting on the steps of the hall door, knitting her stock ing, and looking quite happy as she plied her needles. The good woman was dressed, as usual, in her large, well frilled cap aud white apron, with her bunch of keys hanging by her side, as much perhaps for show as convenience. On the grass at her feet a gray oat lay stretched the run, with half a dozen kittens playing about her on the green. "Good afternoon, Mrs. Motherly how do?" said Weeks. "Mr. Guirkie at home?'' "Your sarvint, sir," replied the mat ron, rising and running her needles into the stocking, after she had waited to count the stitches. Mr. Guirkie's not in sir," "Ain't?" mm AUGUST 7y "No, sir he left here about an hour ago for Rafchmullen," "Rathnrallen—let me see—that's the place he visits so often?" "Yes, sir." "Goes there every week—don't he?" "Every Thursday, sir." "On business, I presume." "No, sir." "Got relatives there, perhaps." "No, sir he has no relatives living, I believe. People's plased to say, though, he's often seen sittin on a tomb stone there in the ould graveyard." "Well, must be some friend, I guess.'' "Why, if the gentleman was a native o'this part o' the country, it might," responded Mrs. Motherly, "but he's not he was born in Cork." "Does he never speak to you of these visits, Mrs. Motherly?'-' "Niver, sir." "You don't say so! It's odd—ain't it?" "O, it's just of a piece with the rest of his doings," replied the good woman, opening, as usual, her budget of griev ances. "He niver thinks of telling me any thing, of coorse why should he? I'm nothing but a sarvint, ye know. I'm only here to do the work, slavin and sludgin from moming till night, strivin to plaze him and humor him, till my heart's a'most broke and all the thanks I get is mighty easy told, Mr. Weeks.' "Don't doubt it. He's a very odd kinder man in his ways- -that's a fact.'' "You may well say it, sir. He's the provokinest man every drew breath. .But won't you light and come in, sir?" "Well, guess I shall, come to think of ,it. Say, can't I write a note here, and leave it for Mr. Guirkie?" "Sartintly, sir come in there's paper there, and pens plenty in the parlor. As for the cratur on the sofa, he'll not dis turb you in the iasfce," "Hilloa! who the thunder is this?" ex claimed Weeks, as he entered the par lor, and beld the'African stretched at his full length on the sofa, apparently fast asleep. "A nigger, ain't he?'' "Yes, sir that's our new boarder,'' primly replied Mrs. Motherly. "But how iu creation did he come here?" "Mr. Guirkie, sir, carried the gen tleman home with him from the wreck." "Ah that's it, I have heard of the wreck lately somewhere here in the neighborhood." 'He's a very respectable boarder for a lone woman—isn't he Mr. Weeks?" "Well, don't know exactly that's all a matter of taste. Some folks like niggers very much, There's#ur New England ladies, for instance they're terrible kind to niggers. I'd venture to say, if this here chap happened to be cast ashore any where along the eastern seaboard, they'd gather round and clothe and feast him fike a prince, before he got well out of water'" "You're jokin, Mr. Weeks." "No, mam, I ain't jokin a mite." "And ye tell, me they're so fond of them as all that?" "Fond? yes—guess they are fond— they're the most almighty creatures in that way in all creation.'' "Bedad, then, Mr. Weeks, I don't envy their taste." "Well, it ain't just that, either,for the fact is, they despise niggers as much as any people in the world. But it's a sort of philanthropy, you know, that's made up of a half sentimental, half benevol ent kinder squeamishness, with a slight dash of religion in it, by way of season ing," "Yes, sir, of course." "You understand me?" "G, parfectly, sir. They must be mighty charitable intirely, God bless them." "Very charitable indeed. That is, I mean to the slave portion of the race. Sometimes their philanthropy impels them even to pawn their jewels to buy a slave from bondage—it is a fact." "See that now! Isn't that wonderful to think of it? Aud still I often heard Mr. Guirkie says the craturs out there in America was not so badly off after all." "Well, no—guess they're pretty well off for clothes and food, and that sorter thing. But they hain'fc got their liberty you know and no American born ought to see a human in slavery and not try to liberate him/' "True for you, Mr. Weeks you speak like a Christian, so you do. Dear knows it's a poor sight to see God's craturs bought and sould, as they say they are over there, just for all the world like a cow or a horse—it is onnatural." "It is shocking!" "And still," said Mrs. Motherly, "they tell us the poor Irish there isn't trated much better than slaves. "The Irish! My dear woman, don't believe a word of it." "Why, I have a letther in my pocket here, from a niece of mine, that is livin in a place called Boston, and she tells me it's tarrible to think of what they suffer. There it is," continued the good woman, opening it, and pointing to a particular passage, which rans a® fol lows: (To l)e continued.) J*#*'*'* &©&£* A O S A E I I S I O N O I O E E S MINNEAPOLIS. Division No. 1— Jas. J. Smith, Pres. Daniel O'Brien, V. P.: John Moore head, R. S- J. J. Walsh, F. S. Francis Conwav, Treas. Division No. 2.—John Dinneen, Pres. J. J. Mullane, Y, P., R. J. Fitz gerald, R. S. Dennis Brennan, F. S. Michael Walsh, Treas. Division No. 3.—-Simon J. 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