Show EViCTiON AT Both BY M G SAMPSON M t 1 the world knows 17 i near the River FInn Keep road d 1 tb tUl yOU come to the 1 of castle then thea strike up ui upa uia a bridle Path at the left to Raphoe From this B Uina castle eastle I be of the most perfect 1 astles in n DonegaL The late Lord Bal 1111 passed here a life of festivity b but lt the present peer had left Ireland fo himself in India and the domain was on a lease tenants paying DunmoYle double doule ha t their fathers had paid Lord Bal liia and being consequently often In arr ar halnon and bis wIfe had bad been all allt tf t way vay to Castlereagh a good ten ml mik Peggie had bad taken off her shoes hr temper proof the wagon ts and wa WItS trying to p Shan fl a strong tron offhand looking young yount hman for not having had six in his pocket to buy a half pound tobacco Lord bleu bless me Michael Peggie aid taid stepping up close beside him himi i Hn this for fet all aU the world like Uke the theE E ing the ha hailstorm storm come on and the ther 1 r ran away with my father and he herning home from McCoys wedding I L nd l a crowd of people in the road from fair and It all broke up with tm onES unes going to be pounded and andt t ht red shawl wi he hAd bought my moth mother mothr er r in the gripe of the ditch and she and the two wheels off and d and a power of boys in the cah n drinking tt ti Lord BatUna Ballina for let thE aDd I the toes off thyself myself till the liddie turn tum b In i U the floor Where in the world 1 you see ee an evening like that threw Peggie a look J mind well your father was bent j night Peggie you SOU should bould settle Jr 0 oJ His tongue was wore 4 red trying to keep me away My Iy hf hE used be all as one as in my myTh Th b U C h when Id see him you tl up p for fog berries d i look down on uS ua aU all said Peg laughing a little Sure Michael it haS V a S hard for any of us to know 1 1 r me poor OCr father said id that night a wiser spoken man in int t 1 r wide world turn out who they thi against him Sure my grand f fd J I her thought to make him a priest hut but hE was as good as dead that night v th jih the whisky went down his throat hut but lw he care a brass button fo foRa for Ra l J He used to swear at him behind his back only lu lm 1 n t the luck to hear him you split h t Tto Irto two halves said aid Shannon j lear ar moon lit up the heavens when t f 1 cached Bog on the fd f Le of which stood their cabin The Ther r was open and before It a pig lay Jay g In some earth Thi beast raised him himself lf on his hind k its s a and nd looked at them Peggie wa was sun almost a child in iny yr y is but the chubby face of a boy boyI I above her shoulder Shannon M t t Ted ped slightly forward to enter the theCa Ca door threw off hs cap kicked his rogues from him and seated him dr ir In a stool dose close by the TIre a dreary look comIng over his f ft tn Peggie cleared her blue hooded doak from a bramble and perched on one corner of a deal table hUPt h pe rl 1 with upon which h the 1 was still moist and began pre preparing preparing paring them for a small pot beside the td i She was a handsome brave young woman with inu blue eyes in which love seemed a ay m who could walk almost as lightly over the thorns of life f yer ver its flowers Mihael she said pushIng back the pig the potatoes become of cf nooney the chap with one eye who ho lV working at the public I is going to leave before this time next week for America said Shannon hann n Thank God said Pe le for forbe he be would only starve with the hunger IT ff h he stayed here J I a doubt Peggie he salt said Shannon directing his eye to in a gap in the window where a hen Fas vas roosting half through the God knows knos If we aU all live a twelve Its little I thought more than th nan ever eer was born bom to be haYing having n COW OW go to the pound and d Dunmoyle tract bus old trader buying ler up and IU Peggie getting poor las relief elief I SEE ee thE day and Lord Ilna living g geese se come as fast as we eat fOat them and as good bacon i ns ever eyer W was made let alone aone herrings frEsh and silt I Yell Well faith Shannon I wish some on would put a 9 morsel ot of herring In I Imy my mouth said who now non J came An old Irish setter letter which had hadi i sulkily step by step behind I I him at the door inor of the cab n pushed through him casting his bin ey eya eye a little nug place underneath the thed d But if my stomach Is empty I Ilace lace hace something down here In my peek tt t that rest cost me flu trouble enough There it is and its from Dunmoyle holding boldin up a summons Sure the sheriffs been chasing mE this three days and I round abd back baek and every everywhere where through Bog to out of his way HI H s ferreting I yr f out of my lifE calling for money R nt must be laid aId with all of us 1 1 said with an oath that made cro cross or well b turned out Surf Sure I never t a ink all nl ht thinking of it and my turf stack ready for the winter Peggie who was hospitable in her hero o own way bestirred herself about the potatoes took them from her hand and peeled off the skins with his fingers od bless you both she said dont be thinking of le now TIme enough and we put to our shifts with the agent in the cabin I wish to the Lord I could drag Lord Ballina out of his grave hed rid you of sum summonses summonses monses But if I live Uve till Monday Mi Michael MIchael chael I gp go down to Raphoe and get the plait and bring it home and sew it into bonnets and hats That will pay for forthe forthe the meal and with the blessing of God this weather will soon fill out the potatoes Och Peggie they wont buy hats of you in Raphoe said in a atone atone tone of annoyance for those cursed sewing machines of Dunmoyle leave no work Hes never easy unless turning I two guineas into three I If It Peggie would cry fit for forten i ten burying Id be along with Rooney to America said Shannon I would drop dead myself said Pegie Peggie wiping her blue eyes first with one corner comer of h her r apron then with another but they let you land Michael and you not a pen penny ny fly in your pocket Sure be sent back without even a blessing Michael said did Rooney give you a hint ro FO you you see seethe seethe the rIcks burning last nIght It was n a fine sight the whole face of the earth lit up with one of barns He may grind the face of us and Bring a lawsuit every day in the week but if it pleases heaven spare us it may cost him a plump bit in the end endI I tell you Peggie a man that will dig up a fairymount as Dunmoyle did Will have no luck Sure Lord Bal hnas bailiff himself sent five women to see could he stop it but no Dun Dunmoyle moyle took every grain of sand in it and there a Christian of us now knows where it is Little wonder all to be upside down with us The heather not know a fairymount w ben he sees it The pig was trying all this time to get a potato from the baby Peggie brought things to a crisis by firIng one of brogues over hIs head whereupon the hungry pair began munching the potato together Yell Well it would take a man twice as asgood asgood good as Dunmoyle to bring me before the justice said Shannon and rn Ill not pay him a shilling either Look at the bit of a rental he pays pars Lord Ballina and throw all the distress on onus onus I 0 us Dont fret Michael said Peggie Sure I dreamed in my bed last night you had bad ditching brought you in a jound What in the devils name Peggie makes you never know you are wet till youre oure drowned 1 said springing impatiently to his feet Better have a shilling in your our pocket than a pound in a 8 dream You must not want spirit There is a differ between wanting and wanting sense said Peg Peggie Peggie gie walking Talking up to side I could give Dunmoyle m my r hearts blood It if hed do by me as he should s said ld Shannon treat me as if I was wasa a man Every station has that right put in I lay a shilling with all his bis pretensions lIved in a small cage some time It all his life he sat with a pipe in his mouth watching a go o by the turnip field He dont dare sit a horse that has nt plenty of bone beneath the tho knee laughed Shannon so Lord save us Lord Ballina as a gentle gentleman gentleman man and heart beart and soul a sportsman He care for money he spent every week what Dunmoyle would spend In a year hed as soon pay twice over the worth of a thing he lived Jived like the men about him and afraid It if his checks once In a awhile awhile while did come back to him You were only a small slip then said turning an admirIng glance toward Peggie but Shannon and tue me mind the castle every winter hunting and shooting You see the turnips f Jr the part partridges ridges then and the sky black with the woodcock A Donegal dra drapers drapers pers no had at anything like Uke that he knows a five note and the ways or Dame street aU all lIe He sent Cu Cusick Cusick sick saw it bring some trash for the dairy and he only oDly paid him made him carry three stone of earthenware and a slab of marble thirteen miles Shannon went presently to the baby and laid one hand on his amber tinted head Peggie he said Ill UIn wrack k every stick in the place in smithereens reens before shall tomm the cabin and Ill send him a message to say so HU Hell be after gIving you a of broken bones to bring Peggie said rising from a rick rickety rickety ety little stool on which he had main maintained tamed his hi balance with difficulty I dont care a if he does said Shannon Querulously Just then thena a blackbird gave his f tallyho ofa of a whistle Talk of shooting con contin continued tin Shannon I ant f d Of shooting myself but I never neer get a sh without the risk of a jail It would be cheav for me to kIll a cow thana than a woodcock but ill fly a salmon when I get a spot that nobody sees me and draw drau the rIver too with a aUne aline line Une at night Dunmoyle may call it poaching if le he likes but the Lord put the salmon in the Finn and I see nothing amiss in me filling my basket call it poaching If he likeS What Dunmoyle care If I never snapped a cap or threw a line out from the cab cabin cabin in to the garden where he came upon Peggie standing beside the pig The moon was shining brightly illuminat illuminating ing the old frieze clothes that were broken and fun full of patches Im as bare of clothes he said when just abreast of her as the day I was bo born God go with you said Peggie her blue eyes fixed ed gravely pon him I wish your our soul was as bare of sin made no attempt t to re revolve revolve volve this caustic characterization but flicked the ash from his pipe and laughed Troubles were soon flying all around Raphoe A fresh constabulary had been brought the sergeant had made some unwarranted arrests and there were rumors of more to follow I Peggie sat in the door of the cabin the bog was silent the only soun sound about the place was the crowing of the I 1 j M MIi I It Ii t I i 1 A Gesture of f His Arm Sent Him Hm Hea Headlong dl Down t the he Deep Descent J baby Suddenly she heard astep and nd Shannon who had come back from Raphoe was sas in the garden Ive had a quarter of a mile to walk through a mob of men he said saidI I can tell you Peggie as we h have ve The constabulary drove to the station some of them was leav leaving leaving ing by the train Half an hour after they left was near ham hamstringing stringing Dunmoyle in the glen be between between tween him and Colonel Byrne Peggie had seated herself at the ta table table ble with the baby upon her knee one arm passed around his trim strong waist aist Shannon glanced across at her Im not sure Peggie he said but Id be willing myself to have the vagabonds vagabonds beating the bog for me If I could know there was a bullet to be betook betook took out of ugly body God help us Michael said Peggie dont you be swore to murder or well weon all have bad luck and a curse Look how the lot fell on Poor as we ar we can walk the high road now in the face of day better that than trembling a corpse Shannon desisted from argument but the ligaments of his neck were elon elongated elongated gated as he thrust his head forward conscious that Peggie was watching him He was a man of excitable and affectionate nature strong and brave but he loathed his life Ufe as it was at pres present nt and longed 10 o strive after an another another other Meetings were arranged for every night The society met in Raphoe the theold theold old room on the second floor of the public was always crowded and hosts of little papers upon cruel cruelty cruelty ty and injustice poured from the Raphoe press Shiel a cousin of was shot In attempt attempting ing to resist the service of a warrant for lor his arrest Shiel was a fine brave fellow said Shannon They were all just back from the churchyard God help us To think of the children and only BrIdgets ts two hands to work for them now nowr r I wonder will Dunmoyle look to her now said Mullins Its a pity Lord is not In It He saw to every everyone everyone one The blessings of the poor he had carried his soul to heaven Well the widow of Shiel shall never make a poor mouth to Dunmoyle said There was always full fulland fulland and plenty in fathers house and taken aU all except hearts blood and that he took at last like a cow or a horse and no time to tomake tomake make his soul I know his face when I looked on it Think of that Shannon hIs own cousIn know his face never look near Bridget et said Mullins Hell HeU only think Its a nuisance that there at all As Ashe he spoke DunmoYle came in view mounted on a somewhat fidgety mare Look at him laughed Shannon the measly chestnut is the pick of his stables Id lIke to see Dunmoyle with the hounds running The only thing he cares is not to get wet on hIs leathers At th the funeral had in indulged Indulged in five or six glasses of raw spirits and thrusting his pat over his face made his exit across the tha little Raphoe street and took a bridle path led around mountain The solitude broke only by pheasants chasing one another and the orn poking across the stubble influenced him as it never had done before and the thought of living JivIng in a world like this homeless or languishing in a coun country country try beautiful as Donegal without food exasperated him himAs himAs As he lay Jay his face to the earth the sound of stones torn by a horses feet caught his ear and ahead he saw mare the mists fold foId in her hers in drapery stepping gingerly over the boles of fallen trees round rounding roundIng ing a point sheltered by a rock Rath donnel crawled through the brambles aud ad roiled a bowldEr down the incline of the mountain directly in front of Dunmoyle I was a man of great strength o a blow from his which had been tempered in a dung heap would fell DunmoYle Still if he took hIs chan changes es with him it was not impossible that br braced oed with anger the fight would go wrong and he might find hims himself lf lodged in Raphoe jail Dun Dunmoyle Dunmoyle moyle stopped before reaching the bowlder and letting the reins fall on the mares neck dismounted to tighten the girth giving the stone a whack which knocked the riding whip out of hS hIs hand Something seemed to break loose in brain He rais raised d his hj hand and thrust at Dunmoyle and spring ing forward got the whip from his hand and with a gesture of his arm ann sent him headlong down the steep de descent descent scent Then pushing his way back through the stubble where the mare stood restless the rIms of her nostrils expanding he took hold of the bridle that hung down and swItchIng her on the belly watched her scramble down the mountain Her return to Ballina castle would be th the token of a fatal fall faU from the saddle without a trace of foul play Early next morning he came under window In a corner comer of the cabin Peggie and Shannon the baby between them Leaning through the broken pane radiating an aroma of tobacco he said Michael do you hear the word making about Dunmoyle Sure |