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Show The e Greatest Long ago, and a very long time ago entirely it was when Finn MacCumhull aid the warriors of the Fianna ruled from their king's dun at Almhuin over the pleasant province of Leinster. Three score captains there were of the Fianna and five score champions followed every captain when he went to the wars. And the like of them for heroes the world has never seen before or since. Seven feet tall was Minne,.the smallest of them all, and the handle of his spear was just a young ash tree. By that you may know what the others were like. Muny's the fine song has been mado up about them by the ancient bards of Ireland For grace and courtesy, for strength In battle, for Ne pty swiftness in hunting, for skill In. making melodious music there was not the like of the Fianna in all Ireland, and if not in Treland, why, then, of course, never by any chance at all in any other country of the world as And it's one above the others there must alWays be whenever three men come together, so among the Fianna, next in favor and In merit to the great ehief Finn, there was always standing comely Olsin of the strong hand. Son of Finn MacCumhull himself was he and of the goddess Sadb, daughter of Bodb the Red. Great was the beauty of Olsin, and his fame was over the four kingdoms of Ireland. He could jump over a branch as high as his forehead and stoop under one as low as his knee, and he running at full speed, and he could pluck a thorn out of the heel of his foot at the same time without hindrance to his filght On a day at the court of Teamhair in the presence of the four kings and the four queens of Ireland the three caskets of honor were given without lessening to Oisin by Cormac, the hich king The first casket held the five silver lilies of courtesy, which meant kindness to the conquered, hospitality to the strange: charity for the poor and distressed, gentleness to old men and children, and white homage to women The second casket contained the five bronze nuts of learning, which signified: Skill in fighting, sleight in wrestling, swiftness in hunting, caution in chess playing, and sweet cunning in the making of melodious songs And the third casket held three golden apples which signified courage in danger, falth in friendship, and truth And no other man before or in speaking since ever got those three caskets at one time without lessening So no wonder was at all it that Niahm of the was golden hair, who the daughter of the king of the Countryof the Young, fell Into conceit with the fame of Oisin and journeyed all the way to Iregreat land for love of him. And no sooner did Oisin set eyes of the golden on Niahm hair than he loved her with every vein of his body, and it's what he said to her: "From this day out 1 will have neither ease of mind nor peace of heart until your life is the same as my life; and for me there's no other woman In the world but you, O, woman of the deep shining eyes!' For answer Niahm bent down from the white horse on which she rode and kissed him on the foreand it is what she said head and on the eyes has paid court "There is many a king's son who brows, but it's to you I O Olsin of the comely And it's to take you give my heart, and to no other. back with me to my father's country I have come, bringing the white horse of magic for our journey. And if you love me, as you say, you will come up now and sit behind me here." So he did that, and the great white horse turned his face to the western sea and the people of the Fianna saw them no more. And they went thelr way together on the white horse of magic over the high, tossing sea and under the dark, running waves until at length and at last they came to the beautiful country of the young and were given an hundred thousand welcomes In the palace of the king itself Some of the poets were saying that it was 300 years that Ofsin lived with his beautiful wife, Niahm, and their children, and other poets used to be saying that it was 500 vears that he remained there But however long it was, one things is sure: that he didn't Teel had the time passing, nor did he dream how long he been away from his own land. For In the country of the young there is neither age nor sickness nor wasting nor dying, but always feasting and music and hunting and warriors contending one with the other. But one day as Oisin and his young men were coming home from the hunt a great red cloud of Druid mist settled on the side of the hill before them, and out of the middle of the cloud a sweet sounding harp began playing, and the heart of Olsin stood still, for he knew it to be Suanach, son of Senshenn, who was in it playing, and the song that Suanach sang was the lament for the death of Oscar. And straigthway a sudden famishing for a sight of the wide, green hills of Ireland and a hungry yearning for a sound of the long forgotten voices took the strength from Oisin's limbs, and the enchantment fell from his eyes. When he came up to Niahm it's what he sald: is "O, Niahm, queen with the ike an empty plover's nest, man said; "of how he went with Niahm, the golden haired, across the seas to the Country of the Young, and how he never came back. But I don't be giving much heed to those old _pishrouges, for I don't think they can be true." Then Oisin asked about Caoilte and Diarmuid and Goll and Lugaidh's son, but the man only stared and made a swift crossing sign on his forehead and walked quickly away. And the péople fled, every one, leaving the great strange man and the white horse standing ulone on the roadside. And a blast of loneliness, flerce as a sweep of storm from the ocean, smote Oisin, so that for a time he had no care to live. But presently from the moor a curlew begun calling, and the bird's note put a thought of the great marsh about the dun at Alm‘ulin into him, and it's to himself he said: "I will go up into Leinster, I will go up to the dun of my father at Almhuln." With that he lifted the bridle rein over the neck of the white horse of magic and they went like the wind without stopping until they came to Leinster and to the hill of Almhuin. And when they came to the hill of Almhuln it was a sorrowful, woeful sight that lay before him; for the broad hillside was bare, the walls of the great dun had been leveled to the ground, and the tall weeds were blowing and nodding above the scattered stones. That is how he found the home of his people. But it's when he came to the Wide, bare spot where the feasting hall used to be standing, and to the great black hearth stones, long srown cold, that the wild grief overwhelmed him, and he struck himself on the breast with clinched fists, and it's what he said: sweet voice, my breast for the heart that was Ges bee ey A |¥ strength your In limbs nd the blood In your veins turn to water hand will be on your grief ind my woe, Ochone mavrone my to us back well I know 3you will. never come of to white he rae magic When Oisin fronted th¢ when of sorrow, and the sand Nj ihm gave a great cr the he into the waves it is Kneeling on shore leaped her him she was, b palms of hand vehind over the face of keening bitterly ] ind ying ioulder And that ippened is orrow first into the ened mortal that Country went but as the ot ind v \ Lz mm swi as under hin the duns of ' red iltogether, and t talle main of them size till the arm they Olsin And u nder yvomen round eys and ered their children and ran from him as if he and it were from the coming Where is And he asked id dis ippe .Finn Mac "umbull hunting And it's what the man sald, he tammering with There is no such man In Ireland now But the wonder great champion of years ago there was a hundreds und the head chief he wa MacCumhull ned Finn ibout him have And the poets Fianna the greatest hero do be saying that he was in Ireland," And a cold dread came on Ojisin, and } t's what he > 3 ; "And of Magic. he had ‘And the poets 0, Dickieig! a son do be named Otlsin?" singing of him, . too," eee ee enough you would Then Olsin, striving be at hard , ook into Mr. Alford, the vain to look In 18 year old Virginia " "No. ing as a "| off Sen morning' averted : . I have Is there owardly think re ' and refusing to ras gO } 0 . xo through a the girl, said stu e A her which would of trol her 'No" all schoolboy's no pleadings wow re aking me ion an ene ki rdly!" me Fours ty in. eyes sald if to ward 0 st think again!" said Robert, je eaae Ue ee 5 oi snairin zy in his volct Were ken possession of the tiny,< cold He had LiKE IUaa ‘ ireinia to turn toward him and 1 mouth dar- ~ way of convint I say?" what I mean you 1 tl hak can a ah ts @) lifted small, pink palmed hand She htt Aa more 2 ynt, one moment, Alford, trying with a hand, de- thus + miserable up time, her pursing volce "What's a = break and up?" sald eyes to the Ine ir 1 morning ' struggled like a this &girl ~ do catch, to "Nothing! said i I can't tell I mean > getically, as she met I know!" cried! the matter get to to get Virginia, to dear you, ' oO ~ omnst & what trying force i would a laugh, Accusl . . z s cun; to of fact Dick, witb the root of things th with a shivering P 7 girl Nnished the the bo) AAD Dick, Jumping up, : to che she all a sigh i apolo ' shaking : x [v's heartless shall all right ill stupid1 now, I Dick and must be something ing has not turned wand." Vireinia cousin, Dilek, ; rtered seeing never t was lovemy 1 never Ir missing up to touch e ee my f , oneie rh ee 3 There *rince iy a heart it} with he his - magic { his, 8 ‘Iauntered bs A joke} f 1 f your being i so close z about don't see 3 the + 2 acne ma a at love affairs with me. You know Dy nen ' useful in finding a Print Charming for you aahThe boy ealooked ; and tugged viciously at a annooved rf filianteo color ‘ r sweeping over her face "How dare swet . slon-pasess and shall in her - bands, "JT face her 1 b urled a he!" OrtShe ec £ hate hook he Y ‘ ate, angry sobs shook her slight fr. ame 3 air sight. her hair Into burnished incing Bhe over ~ her aehead, i turning turnin} not were veranda the up climbing ro : id see gold. he sen . +4tinted phy r s pert perfectly skin more beautiful than the girl es , or ee ay eis ttle cod will have a tough battle l - all my life ; antl v 4-only virginia aid. not hear the door open 8 eewhen ; a 4 , second orson In the room tecame aware of « second pe a gentle volée called her her tenderly and te pd touched ED ear him oR arse 1e¢ . ee P Dickie,Dae you may : yet bring home my triumphantly" boy prize . e was fas fading fre Virginia laughed; her trouble was ehair, fast the fading from z vir deep. cushloned sunlight The -) Inia,ay iton, I'm little afraid," § Virginia's ¢ ; said mother Mary ¢ orbin, i addressing z Mrs the same time!' to keep back the anger, ris y LRN Rr: Na = ES Sen / dow ZO with wide open hearted eyes is Dick?" sald the girl, sinking Into her seen him since lunch.' , chair oan haven't I don't know, dear." sald her mother, looking fond.~ ly at her beautiful daughter The sun had nearly set, only here and there re mained a golden light on the deck, but the sea still sparkled with sunlight, and the big boat seemed to bo cutting its way through molten gold. , Just when the three ladies were thinking of going to dress for dinner Dick appeared you know there is an American, an invalld, on he said quietly, board, aunt?'' 3 No," sald Mrs Elton, with curlosity writ large on her face discovered it quite by chance. I bumped into thinking it was his cabin, mine, which Is next to his He's It's Bob most awfully ‘ll! But I know come on deck he won't because he found out you and Virginia were among thi . passenver Dick cousin. looked worrled and glanced with the open pleadingly at him, and he leaned his full weight on the shoulder the saint, and it's what he said: "My grief and my woe, O Patrick of the helping arm, it's well I know this sorrowful spot. It is the battlefield of Gabhra, where the bravest and the come= liest Ile burfed. 1 saw that stream before us run crimson red with the best blood of Ireland. Och, ochone, my grief! There at the hill's foot fell my son Oscar of the sword, and just here sank down ‘together the seven brave sons of Caollte, and there died Lugaidh's son, and never in this world before was there such loss of fighting Why have you brought me to this sad place, O Patrick?" And it's how the saint answered him: "It's because the dust of the Flanna lies buried all about us here that we came. Tell me, Olsin of the long years, if Finn and the Fianna. were at peace with God, would you also be baptized, and so be prepared for the city of saints?" "Tt's little use to be striving to hide it from yeu, Patrick; it's hard it is to be at odds with you, and gladly I'd be friends with God just for your sake, Besides, if there be need of fighting men in heaven, the king of saints cannot do a wiser thing than to send for Goll and the mighty Oscar of the sword and tie soldiers of the Fianna." And Otsin could not understand at all the tears in Patrick's eyes nor the tremble in his voice as we saint answered him: "The merey of God is more wonderful than all his works. He has answered the prayers of the humblest of his servants. So Oisin this night you willibe christened with Finn, your father, and with your loved comrades of the Fianna; your high loyalty to them has conquered heaven. Come with me now to the ford." At that he led the old pagan's faltering steps into the shallow stream and baptized him there. When that was doné he bade Oisin return to the water's edge and wait for him there. But Patrick remained In the water praying, and It's what It seemed that his figure grew taller and his face glowed with a white light. Three times he raised his arms toward heaven, then bowed his head again and waited, When he did that a heavy, luminous mist settled on either bank of the stream. Presently the figure of a giant warrior with shield, and sword, and spears of ancient make, stood at the river's edge outlined against the mist. And Patrick knew by the king's crown that Was upon the warrlor's forehead that It was no other than the great Finn, son of Cumhull himself, that was in it. And the warrior came into the stream and bent his knee before Patrick, and Patrick baptized him there. When that was done the mightly son of Cumhull arose and pass'' on into the mist on the opposite shore whence he had come Then followed Oscar of the strokes, and Calrrioll of the white skin, and Faolan the liberal, the he sprinkled WANN that the Ways. know Dick how here The boat is quite large enough for us not to meet!" to her temples, sprang Virginia, the color mounting and, with her head well up, disappeared out of her chair Miss Elton!" Robert said, You misunderstand me, went by him; but she to take as she trying her hand ran, and he was unable to detain her. girl felt her brain on fire. She delivered her message to Dick, then shutting herself Into her cabin ind flinging herself on the couch, erfed as if her heart bre know, looked on part good "T that everything was golng wrong. Why, he always found Virginia alone, a weary her face, and Robert, with whom. he sat the day, seemed to get no better, but of ind gloomy to him. Alford," sald Dick here, Why get to the bottom of this, depressed his want to him into his one don't day you tongue, seven in and sons. the and Caollte And flood forehead a child as and spoke of God, no other that stood before him. it's how he lay with and dead, =e wensick of each Patrick the Thus words captain As the saint gazed his lips to the ground and he cold made a a c wide ¥ ; 0s grave cs of stones ST aE over a ares Now that was the greatest miracle of St. Patrick bringing back the Fianna of Ireland from the grave the way they would be baptized and saved for heaven, Patrick Baptized CLAUDE igo. With a start, she looked at Alford. have nothing to forgive, but now I distasteful my presence is to you, I'll send a sharp his knee on the apparition raised its right hand high above its head with the open palm toward Patrick. And it's how it stood there smiling a little minute and then disappeared through the cloud the way the others had gone. did that the mists lifted, and Patrick went but to where the figure of the old man was lying, and ee By Dick didn't of the and his water changed and hand?" you were going home by the Magnolla I should have waited for the next boat!' Robert Alford lay In a deck chalr covered with rugs Beside him was Virginia, sitting bolt upright, her hands clasping and unelasping themselves nervously This was their first meeting since that morning, two years he hair, Waa"aitways" the Strue) -asa inst thebille took where Why, he'll kill himself living the whole Journey {in his eabin, and an invalid, too! I must really go and him!" eried Mrs. Elton, anxiously Dick took his aunt to the cabin where Alford lay, white and weak on deck, biind to her surroundings, Virginia re mained olor coming and going, a sensation which she could yt explain thrilling her through and through. Please forgive me! I assure you, if I had known were Conan bent the followed captain and host followed host until the warriors came no more, When the last figure melted away into the haze Patrick knew that his task was ended. But as he turned to regain the bank a resplendent figure stepped forth to meet him Of all the men Patrick had ever seen in the world, this one was the statellest and comeliest It's more than seven feet tall he was, and the hair of his proud head fell like burnished gold to his shoulders. Upon his brow was a golden fillet, and a collar of red gold encircled his neck. In spite of the youthful beauty of the man's face, Patrick knew well that it was Olisin ure making tress, "It's a bed of fire you for yourself this day, when you should be striving for the delights and pleasures of heaven "Tell Patrick, would my horse or my hound be allowed with me in that elty 3 "Nelther your horse nor your hound nor any soul less thing may enter that place." "Well, then take m inswer Patrick of ths wheedling tongue If in heaven you can never hear the song of the black bird nor the linnet on the bough nor the ery of the hounds on a frosty morning, nor cane bellow of the stag as he comes leaping down the mountaln, it's not the kind of a place I'd like to be spending the rest of my days in, No, no, Patrick of the bells, don't be throwing up your hands' that way, for whatever happens to me, where I'd be is with F/ my father and his people At that Patrick was In great trouble; and he went gut of the 10use then and shut himself up in we chapel, and it's there praying he was until evening, ind he never stirred while the vespers were being read, and even long after the cloisters were still with the sleep Patrick was kneeling with bowed head like 1 statue of stone jut at the turn of midnight he irose and went to the cell where Oisin was sleeping, ind it's what he said " Awake, Olsin of the stubborn heart! Arise, for An my God has taken pity on your unbellef." Then Olsin, without a word, rose wondering andg the two went into the darkness and the silence of thi night It's by every short way they went over the hills and through the valleys until, by dusk of the evening of the morrow, they came to the ford of the river that flowed through the wide plain of Gabhra And when Oisin saw that place a great weakness came expression and flaming passed they are in "Finn and the Flanna are overthrown; the bonds of pain, being punished for their pride, their their misdeeds." boasting and for you Oisin burst forth again. ‘It's easy Then has gone now, when the strength to say handed priest." he from "but me, few Minne, the of the Fianna, were it's psalms your clerics would be singing this hous¢ the night, and its many's the sore head would be runitabout Ath Cliath looking for a place to hide And now don't be talking to me that way any O Patrick of the crooked staves, for it's little more, I'll be gelving vou from this out!" heed diserled Patrick, "O witle old In great "Where "Do man | UWT. deck = kle jumped out of her chalr and kissed her<< then, linking ae ufectionatels oe » her he r afte onately wi thinj or ri o the veranda 5 aa and stood a ti little captive bird in hia 2 ; : now ea jo apart ke from xy the his sssion darkening his girl, looking at her, a hop le re therwise handsome ace, é aves He rarce lict suddenly flashed into his e) warning, caught without Inia and, ae herce A > sjose up to rein aecarae "} 2 ‘ ie . ay kissed her, Nera ne ser ae ED :and t gy her into a e chalr, into then putting her beautiful, delicate cheeks, : r th oor he walked briskly out of the room xcitedly coc ted the girl, her eyes shining excl os him iT "wort to -your kiig thite Finn Mrs. Elton and her daughter, with Dick, now nearly 18 n attendance, had sailed out to Indla to nurse a ousin of Mrs. Blton's, a missionary who had all but nuecumbed to devotion to duty and an uncongenial clinats They were now returning home, leaving the invalid weH ' Mary had opened her mouth to reply, but Virginia ippeared coming from the other deck, and they changed the subje« t of conversation his arlné y :; Bul, my dear Mary, the child is only 20; surely she has plenty of time yet in which to meet the right ant You don't mean to tmply that because every man on board Is more or less In love with her, and she still remains heartwhole, she is heartless?' said Mrs Icslton. Ves and fist out of the window Bas B eo ‘ lown the drive He's been here proposing to we fy ' : r sint home so quickly that t gir Dickdrove ‘the polrye 2 id no : jeny ‘ tx "red could thna 1 . with her hatter 24 I fault for being ing blue tthe he veheménceé . lovely man's passionate gaz o "J had not vie wed my * : etions : r f that Meh eri? Rob . ld( ¢ iSKl) that had obs C te roppec 1e hance . Me: sald tea edge you have of Finn. son of Cumhull, to be saying thing like that On the plain of Gabhra Finn with his own hand slew 200 fich ting*®m« n at isn't hundreds that Finn, has against him now, O sinful old man but thousands ind tens of thousands nd hundreds of thousands." "Tr there were as many against them as there are drops of water In Loch Dearg, O Patrick. who belittles the champions of Ireland, my Finn and his heroes would not leave a head on a neck from one end of hell to the other." IMs ; ae EAR me, Virginia, just ling!" urged Robert eas easae e isked of Patrick "But how big is this-hell of which you all are » much afraid, O son of Galphrun! And Patrick was obliged to answer him, I do not know how ble the place but, be eontent, It is wide rush and deep enough and strong enough to hold orever the sinful Flanna of Ireland Then Olsin burst forth Well, let me tell you, O stranger in the country, If Mell were half the size of tJreland my. Finn ind his champions would cut their way with thelr swords from one end of it to the other And know, too, that If It were heaven lney were wanting to go in to it. isn't the likes of your God that would be keeping them out. It's little knowl- the indled 1 upright walk ne "But tell "me first, Patrick of the white book, where are the Flanna-my son, Osear of the strokes, Art Garriada, the victorious, Caolite, son of Ronan, and Finn, my father-ure they in your heaven?" "No," answered Patrick. " their Tikes would not be let into heaven, they dled unbaptized They are prisoners in deep hell, suffering the torments of fire." spot of red anger burned on either cheek of Olsin it's what he answered: "Then keep your heaven for yourself, O Patrick of the crooked staff, and for the likes of these fll singing clerics; as for myself,-Iwant none of it. will co to this hell you speak about to be with Finn, my father, and my son, Osear, and the friends of my youth." And Patrick was sore sorry to hear this, for he loved greatly the high loyalty and the white honor of the old Fenian, still he eould not keep back a quick surge of wrath, so he sald "O, witless old man,gif you had been given but the quick peep of one eye into the place where the Fianna are confined It Is a different sort of wish that su would be speaking now and its humble and fright- it's the gee C N1eéu Ver will wind Horse AS RN Patrick Led Him in it has flown over the seas to Ireland, and I think I shall die now of the lonesome sickness that is on me for a sight of my people." And she answered him and she said: "Ah, then, it's the sorrowful word you're bringing to me this day, husband of my hgart, going away that way, and it's maybe never coming back to me." "Haven't we still the white horse of magic," he said, "to bring me ba¢k safe again to you? The thought of my people js like a burning coal in the : middle of my brain.° And it's what she jsaid: "There is grief before you where you are go eomely Oisin, for not one you eyer cared for is this day to welcome you back to green Ireland) Great Finn and his champions are lying under e heavy stones these hundreds of years. Bven the -ol}rods have gone from there. A stranger froni Rom& fepook and belli has banished them, and the face Mot the hills are cold and strange. y But I glve u leave to go, for when the } home longing comes int a man's heart all the waters of the world will not qu its burning." Olsin's distress mind a t those Great his words and its what He took Niahm to « omtort her, and irms queen, up in his spoke and it's she that erjed her fill by she to him then and this is the warning back or touch hand > you leave "If ground o from moment that or foot will and your magic youth you you out be ind there will ind shrunken be old Ois . mY ree) \ Ws dead White OM |S no on of "O Patrick of the long prayers, it's little liking I have for your clerics and their fasting and their singing and gheir sour faces, but you, O strange man with the pleasant word, it's great the warmth that's in my heart for you, and it's loath I'd be to part with you when we die. Maybe it's not much enjoyment you'll be having in heaven, I'm» thinking, with all these "W977 ~~ prought the And Olsin was not baptized that day. And neither on the next day, nor for seven days after that day did Patrick ‘even speak to the rough old warrior of heaven or of repentance or for any plous thing, but every night of the seven the two were together, and its only kindness and the deep flattery of long reaching questions that the pagan chief got from Patrick. And the saint noticed with great grief that every day the old chief was fainter of volce and weaker than he was the day before, and the fear grew heavy on Patrick that Olsin would die unbaptized. And If the son of Calphrun grew fond of Ojsin it was fonder of the saint that Olsin himself became. And it's what he sald at last: "O, isn't It the sorrowful day, Finn of the open "4 Ze or hand,. for your own son to be this way a stranger above your empty hearth stone? And you, Goll, and Caoitte, and Diarmuid of the fair women, and my own son Oscar, is there, never one of you will rise up to bid me welcome! O, where shall I turn my face and who will cover me in my wide grave!" And as he sat there mourning, his head drooped so low that the long, yellow hair of him streamed upon the white mane of the horse, two red foxes came out of a hole and began fighting, one with the other before him. So when Oisin saw that-the great sign of loneliness and desolation in the house of his father -the weakness of sorrow melted his bones, and ne -<4 ws = . y sank from the top of the horse and it's how he lay with his lips to the ground, his arms stretched wide, and he was the same as the dead Now It chanced at that hour that Patrick of the bells, son of Calphrun, with two of his clerles, was on his way to Ath Cliath to preach the new faith to the people. And some one told Patrick of the strange beautiful man who looked like a god of the Tuatha de Danaan, and who had just gone riding on a wonderful horse up the hill of Almhuin and who was now lying as one dead upon the ground But when Patrick went to that place he saw no wonderful horse and there was in no god of the Tuatha de Danaan, but only a tall old man, and ne fying moaning and mourning among the stones. For, as Niahm had foretold, the instant Olsin's foot touched the ground, the horse vanished and the chill of the ages crept into his bones and into his heart, and he was a withered. old man. Even the mind in him was old. After Oisin told his wonderful story to the clerics wearisome persons fretting and keening from mornPatrick took him by the hand and led him the ways ing till night around you about their souls. Whisper! to Ath Cliath, where tor three days Olsin listened to do you Patrick give up heaven and come with me to Patrick of the bells preaching. to the princes and to the Fianna, where I promise there is plenty of eating, the people. And every night through the long hours and drinking, and singing, and chess hunting, and till between the crowing of the cock and the full light playing, and warriors contending one with another of day, Oijsin would be telling Patrick and his clerics I'll speak the good word for you to Finn. my father, In the monastery the story of the Fianna and of the and its a hundred thousand welcomes lay before you." wonderful Country of the Young And they would never But Patrick answered him sadly: "© foolish be tired listening to him man of the sword, it's little of those pleasures are On the fourth day of the preaching, when Patallowed to the enemies of heaven." rick was getting ready to baptize the people it's what In another day Olsin said: "It's what I'm thinkhe said to Olsin: ing sometimes, Patrick of the white cloak, that if "Come out now with the others, son of Finn. till Finn and the king of saints are enemies now, it must { baptize you and save you from the torments of hell, be the way that some other king is carrying jealous . ae » for if you_are pat, pagpizes. you.can -mever onter. -liss- the two of them. ~Cowldn't you send Young the O'@ill and the Good People" given up by every one that Patrick of the bells was tho most wonderful saint that ever lived for working miracles, and the one I am going to tell you about now was the greatest miracle of all. them On Miracle of StPatrick Herminie Templeton, Mutbor of ‘Darby 1 "S Him There. MERCER. get well and rouse yoursélf? Virginia is always quiet now, too! Have you and she quarreled?" "Not that I know of; but if I told you all, you understand Dick," sald Robert, wouldn't "T know you proposed to her two years ago, if that's what I wouldn't undersiand. I believe she didn't know her own mind then Why can't you buck up and make her happy now? Dick felt he was striking out boldly; whether It was wisely he didn't care Robert sat up gripping his chair fiercely. to me? say, Dick, Do you do you know what your remark meuns know that I would gladly lay down my life for Virginia?" EXxhausted, he lay back on his cushions, but the happy light on his face had changed it from that of an invalid's to a healthy man's "What if I should get a second refusal?' said Alford, scarcely above a whisper ‘Well, you can throw me overboard, !f you find 1 have put you The news on the wrong that Virginia track*" said Dick was not wholly Indifferent to him had worked wonders with Alford, and he looked and felt a hale and hearty man as he went into the dining room for dinner. The dinner ended after one course, when he discovered that Virginia had eaten something in her own cabin and gone on deck. He found her leaning wearily against the railing. My Virginia!" cried. Robert, bending "Virginia! to find beside her the man who turned, over the gir), she held the magic wand had discovered that whom conld touch her heart There was no need for words, for they had loved enc?! 1 for other passionately two years. Dick had brought home the prize boy and the little god had come off victorious ‘ |