Show 0 0 jf The Woman Thou Gayest Me j BEING THE STORY OF MARY ONEILL O'NEILL Written by HALL CAINE CAINEn Copyright 1913 by Hearst's Meart's Magazine Copyright in Great Britain Co Copyright 1913 by J. J B. B L Co i n n LJ SYNOPSIS OF ALL CHAPTERS Mary lary Ia ONeill O'Neill horn born on the Island of Elian Ellan Is a disappointment to her hor father fattler Daniel ONeill Her Aunt Bridget se secures solo so- so lo cures cure tho the caro care of hor her taking her from fromer fier Cler er Invalid mother The child forms forma a n 1 warm friendship for Martin Conrail Conrad Boni son eon i of Dr Conrad who 10 a attended her mother Sent to school through the tho efforts of ot Aunt i. Bridget ct who detests Mary Iary and her mother mothr moth moth- er ef r the tho child is 18 taken awa away from tro school j by bJ her hor little champion Martin just In time Ume to ol a avoid a thrashing b by the angry mistress a friend of or Aunt Bridgets Bridgets Brid Brid- gets Jets Neither ether Martin nor Mary Mar arc are I eC sent cent back to school Together they find themselves stranded one da day dav on a n lonel lonely rock called caned St. St Marya l a ion a-ion long distance from shore their rowboat having drifted away when Mary dropped the rope at attached attached attached at- at to the tho frail trail vessel Martin l I If Is J. J sure suro they will be rescued by a vessel R But a after er Martin Conrads Conrad's rl right ht arm ls s I f r broken In trying to ring the bl big bell bellon bellr r on the tho rock tho two are arc rescued b by r Tommy tho the Mate l who has found lound his his rowboat rowboat row- row fL boat drifted ashore Martin I Is pent nt to toi i 1 King Georges George's college at the other end cud of oC Ellan Elian Mary Is Js ordered b by her fa father thet f. f to b bp b sent to a it convent of oC till the Sacred I at ut Horne The prote protests ts of or Marys Mary's mother are ure brushed aside b by the tho lath father 1 and Aunt Bridget 0 lal l Mary forgives forgive her Aunt Bridget and I s cousins and I leaves for lor Rome with Father FatherA A Dan She e even n forgives org tile tho young oun Lord LoN on 11 the tho steamer he also leaving Ica Ellan Elian isle for Oxford She reaches leaches Home and ami enters the Convent of the Sacred Heart itS it'S Mary meets MIldred 1 one Olle of or her fellow pupils pupil and Alma Ller Lier an i can daughter of ot a woman who haLl hail lived H if In Jn Castle Raa on Elian Ellan isle and was wal a aI I friend f to the bad Lord Raa Mary lar c. go homo home Christmas no 10 o ulie and Sister Angela Ansell and Father Glo Giovanni spend the tho holidays to together ether at nt tho the convent Upon th tho pupils returning to school after the h holidays y t Mary lar unwittingly tells Alma about Sitter Sister Angela J and Father I Glovanni's Glovan- Glovan nis ni's b behavior Jor during tho the holidays Father Father Fa Fa- Fa- Fa ther Giovanni and Sister Angela leave 0 for forI 3 I England land Alma Lier Is sent s nt from rom school Mary fary Is taken back home and says sas goodbye to her mother the day be- be she dies CHAPTER r J y After my mothers mother's death cath there thore was no place left for me mc in my fathers father's Bets Betsy Beauty who u w o wn was now ow called LJ L-J Miss Bets Betsy anti and gave av herself moro more than ever eyer the tho airs of tho the daughter of tho the family occupied half her days with tho the governess who ha had been on engaged aged to teach her and tho the other half in driving ri dressed in in beautiful clothes to the thc houses house of the gentry roun round about N Ncy r called t the tho o young mis I tress hall had become m my fathers father's secre secretary tary tan and amI spent most of her time i in it his his big private ate room a privilege which enlarged enlarged en lar ed her pride without improving her manners Martin Iutin Conrad Conra I did id not see for in reward for some Bomo success at school tho tim 4 t 3 it 44 kJ 4 r. r c 1 j 4 4 y 4 t J U ft c 4 I I Q- Q The reverend mother then took me to her country home borne In the hot months of or summer the place was like paradise paradiso to me with its roses growing wi wild d by tho the wayside its green lizards lizards- running on on tho rocks its goats its sheep its vineyards its shrines and its blazing sunsets which seemed to girdle the heavens with quivering bands of purple and an gold doctor had hal allowed him to spend pond his Easter holidays in London in order to look hook at s 's ship the Pram Fram which ha bad just then arrived ed in the Th Thames ames Hence Helice it happened that though homo home homemade made marIe a certain tug at me with its familiar ammar sights and III sounds and more than once I J turned with timid steps toward towar my mothers mother's busy husy room intending intend in ing to sa say Please Pleast father dont don't send me back to school I macic no demur when whon six ix ix or o F lays days cays after the funeral Aunt Bridget began to pre pre- part for my departure There Theres There V od olds odds s of women said Tommy tho the Mute Mate when I went into the garden to say sar goodbye to him The re like sheep s 5 broth is ia women If theres there's a a. head and a heart in them they they're re good oo and if f there isn't you might as well bo be sup supping ing hot w water tor Our Bi Bit Woman V oman is hot water but water but shell she'll die dio for all Within a ri fortnight I was back at the tho convent coment and there tho reverend mother atou atoned to me inc for every e neglect liT I I knew you would como conio hack back to me Inc she he said and aul from that hour on ward sho she seemed to bo be t trying to make makeup up to mo inc for tho the m mother I had lost host I became deeply devoted to nor her As Asa Asa a 3 cons consequence her bar spirit became my spirit and little by tho the religious side sido of tim tho lifo life of the tho convent took completo complete possession of me mc At first I loved the tho church and its services because tho the reverend mother mother loved love them and also for lor tho the sake sako of tho music the tho incense the flowers and tho the lights on tho the altar but after I had taken my communion the mysteries s of our religion took cold of oi me the tho tho confessional with its sense sens of oi cleansing and tho the unutterable sweetness sweetness sweet sweet- ness of tho the mass For or n a long time there thero was nothing to disturb this religious sido ido o of my mind My U father never sent for me mc and as often as tho the holidays camo came round round tho the thore re reverend mother took mo me with her to her country homo home at rit Nemi Nomi That was a beautiful place a sweet white whito cottage some seine twenty kilometers from Rome Ronie at ut the thc foot of Monte Cavo o in tim tho mid middle lo of tho the remains of a castle asUe an and a monastery and had a littie lit little tie tIc blue lake lying fi c an au emerald among tho the green and roil red of the grass rass and poppies in the valley aHer bolow below hi Iu tho time hot months of summer the thc pla place late c was like a para paradise ise to me mc with its roses growing wild by the tho wayside its green lizards running on ou the rocks rock its goats goat it sheep it its vineyards its i brown boys bos in velvet vel and its girls in smart mart red petticoats ats and gorgeous outside stays its it shrines an and aud its lazing sunsets which seemed to girdle tho the heavens with quivering bands of purple and gold Years wont by without ID my being aware of their going for after a while I became entirely happy nappy I i heard frequently irom rom homo home Occasionally Oc Ott- it was from Betsy Boby Beauty who had not much to sa say say beyond stories of balls bails at government house where she febo had hurl danced with tho the young Lord Raa Ran an and of hunts 1 at winch she ho he had bad ridden with sith him More l rarely it was from Aunt Bridget who usually began by bj complaining of tho the over ever increasing cost of m my convent clothes and ended with accounts of her daughters daughter's last now costume and how well she looked in it From Front Nessy MacLeod and mv m father I never heard at all but Father Dan was my constant correspondent and ho told mo me everything o First of mj father my father himself that himself that he hc had carried out ninny many of his great enterprises enterprises en- en s his marine works electric railways drinking and dancin dancing places which had brought tens of thousands of f visitors and hundreds of thousands of if pounds to Elian Ellan thought the good rather father doubted the advantage of such innovations and lamented the d decline of f piety which had bail followed on the hr lust t for Eor wealth Next of Aunt Brid Bridget that Bridget that ot-that that sho she was tras bringing up her daughter in iu the wa ways s 's of if worldly vanity und and cherishing a serpent serpont in her bosom hosom meaning j Nessy MacLeod l who would poison hor her heart tome somo day dar Next of of Tommy Tomm the tho mate that mate that he ho sent moat his bis best r to the HI lil missy but hut thon thought lit the she was well out omit of Df tho the wa of the he bi way big woman who was wae getting that highly t that ha t you vou couldn't say Tom rom to a cat before her but hut she w was s agato agate of you yot to make mako it Thomas Then of Martin Conrad that Conrad that he be was at college studying for a a. doctor but his bis heart was still stil at the north polo pole and he was wa like a seagull in the nest of a wood pi pigeon con always longing to bo ho out on tho the wild mId wa waves Finally of the young Yonn Lord Raa that Raa-that that the tho devils devil's hues must bo ho in tho the man Inan for aft after r boin being sent down from Oxford Ox Ox- ford he had wi wasted waited tc his substance in riotous living in in London and his bis guard bUard ian ian had hail been heard to saw sav ho be must murr marry a rich wife ifo soon foon or his estates would go to the tho hammer Such was as the thc substance of tho the news that reached cached mo me over O a period of six ears Yet welcome as 15 were Father Dans Dan's letters the life they the described seemed less and le Ie important to mo moo as timo time went on for the thc outer world was slipping away avay from front mo me altogether and I was becoming moro morn and more immersed in iu my mv spiritual exercises I r spent touch much of Ill my time rallin reading religious books thin the tho life of Saint Ter- Ter tho the meditations of Saint Francis of Sales ami aho above alove all tho the letters and amid prayers of our blessed cd Hargaret aret Mary Marv Alacoque whose love lo of the heart w was s liko like a R fl flaming miu torch to to mv my excited spirit The soul of Romo fod tod tr I to enter en en- ter into my ray soul soul not not the new R Rome me for of that I knew nothing but the theold theold theold old Rome the hol holy city that could coul speak to me mo in tho the silence of the night within tho the walls of m ray my COD convent vent school with mth its bells belI of the Dominican and und Franciscan monasteries on either cither side sido its stories of miracles performed on the sick an and dying lying by tho the various arious shrines of tho the madonna its accounts of the tho vast multitudes of the faithful who came from all ends of tho the earth arth to time the ceremonials cere menials at St St. Peters Peter's and above all it its H sense of the immediate immediato presence of ot tho the popo po half a i milo ilo away way tho the vicar vicar and aud mouthpiece of God himself The end of it all was that I wished to become a a. nun lIun I said laid nothing of my desiro desire to anybody y not oven even to t tho the reverend mother but day by byS day m my resolution grew Perhaps it was natural that tho orphaned or and homeless girl pirl rl should plunge with all this passion into lUtO tho the aurora of ofa a now new spiritual lifo but when I think how m my riat nature was made for love lo human hu man love tho tim love lo of husband and chil chiI dren I cannot but hut wonder with a thrill of the heart whether my mother in heaven who rho while sho sIo was on earth had fought so fiO hard bard with my father for tho bod body of hor bor child was now fighting with ith him for her er soul I was just 18 8 years of ago ngo when my desire to become a nun nun reached its highest point and n then received its final overthrow Mildred Bankes who had haa returned toRome to toRome toRome Rome an and was living as a L' L novice ico with the little sisters of the poor was wa about to make her vows and ancl the tho reverend mother took mo mc to tlC wee see tho the c ceremony Never Nover shaH shall I forget the tho effect of it if The sweet summer morning tingling with ith snow now white sunshine tho the little whito white chapel in n the garden gardon of tho convent c with flowers flowers the altar with its lighted tapers the friends from front without without with out clad in in guy gay uy costumes s as for a festival festi val tho the bishop in in hi his bri bright ht v vestments an and then thOen Mildred Mildre herself hermit dressed sc as a bride in a beautiful white gown with a alon along lon long l ong whito white veil an and attended by other novices nO as bridesmaids It was just liko like a marriage to I look o upon except for the absence of a visible VISIble ble bie bridegroom tho the invisible in one being Christ And the taking of ho vows was like a marriage service er too only m moro ore solemn and sacred and touching touching- t tho he brido bride rece receiving vin the rin ring on omi her finger finger fin fin- finer ger er and anti promising to servo seno au and amid worship worship wor wore ship her celestial lover from that day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer iu in sickness and aud in health as long lone as life should last aud and through h the tho eternit eternity that was to fol follow tol- tol l low ow it I cried all through the ceremony for sheer joy of its 10 Si and aud when i it t was over mer and anti wo we went into the re re- re an and aud l Mildred red told me mo she was returning to 1 England to work among tho fallen girls of London I 1 vowed in iu my heart though I lly har understood what she was as going to do that I would woul follow her example It was something of a jar to go o back hack into tho the streets so full of noise an and hustle bustle antI and all tho m way home homo with the reverend mother 1 I was forming time the resolution of tolling telling her that very ry ni night it ht that I meant to he be a nun for to the time depths of In my j soul by br what I ha had seen and anti remembering remembering- I what my ray poor moth mother r had wi wished hed for forme forme me lime I determined that no other lifo life would I live livo under any circumstances Then came caine tho thio shock As we wo v dro up at our door a postman post man mall was delivering letters One of thorn thom was for tho the reverend mother and I saw aw in a moment that it was in my fathers father's S 'S handwriting Sho rca read it in silence and in in silence she handed it to tome mo me It ran Madam I have romo come to Rome Home to take tale back ray my my daughter daught r. r I believe e her education will dB now bo ho finished an and I 1 j reckon on tho the time has arrived to prepare pre pro pare paro her for the chan change o in life that is before herThe herThe her s The The bishop of our diocese has conic como with inc me an and wo we propose to mma nay our re ro- ro s to you rou at Ht 10 ii clock o'clock prompt tomorrow tomorrow to to- tomorrow morrow n morning y Yours our madam r I DANIEL 0 NEILl To be bo con continued tinned tomorrow |