Show 0 e e Woman Thou Gayest Me BEING THE STORY OF MARY ONEILL O'NEILL Written by HALL CAINE 1 C Jill 1111 b by Hearer a M r In lii Great Cop Copyright by J. J B. B LIppIncott Co Oo r O 0 Ita all my f fault he said Baid ohad obad lcd led mo me to ho garden ard n house b hi a stood Lood among among- the tho bluebells at ati atud i cud ud of ot the tho orchard and was ivas io to and fr fro in front of ot it it x I kne knew perfectly what hat tho the attitude tho ho church would be and I ou ought ht havo bavo you had n never er before seen cen him no 80 o Ut er U- t I. I Thero was a wild look in hi his and his voice oleo was Tas quivering like lik mi of n R bow I I Poor old Father Dan lies lie's an nn old iel el with as good a heart as as' ever evert w r rt it t under a cassock But Bat what rEve a r Eve vc va a n man nan may mar bo be to tho the fetish of at hi hi hb thi Only think Hunk what b he MYS tys my Wine The Tho guilty Ity party Ill I'll never the guilty but o evo you are party don The guilty party may mn- never irry ty No good clergyman of ot any istian church charch in the worM world dare are try irry her What an infamy Ask what tho the churches are aro hero here Kr r. r Arent Aren't thc they her herto to bring brine tho worst wont t of Yet Ye they thor cast H t the tho woman who ha has sinned d n against ainet r r marriage vow vow denying denying her hor access the tha altar and turning her out of re i though s-though though sho may have repented thousand tithes with bitter itter bitter rs He walked two or three paces in in ont ant of the tho pardon garden house and then irn mA back to mo me with flaming flaming- c eyes eves s. s r that's not your case anyway aid Father tan Dnn nn knows perfectly at your marria n was no marrin marriage o at atI I only nIl a bit of commercial T in which your our husband gave avo u his bad bid namo name for your fathers father's un un- up- up can n money It was naR no marriage in is other sense senne either cither and mi might ht have havo n 11 annulled if there thoro had been any immon honesty in annulment An And NT W that it ha hax Ilal tumbled to wreck and andin in Ln as anybody mi might ht have fe teen seen n it mild tild do dOt you yon urn are told toM that you ou aro are mad Hind to it to the lat day clay and ancl hour of or mr ur life After all aU you ou havo gone gono ouo rough all all vou TOU have havo never know another hour of happiness as asang ang ng ng 8 as you yon live While your our husband his hill brut brutalities and in in- iv is free to do lo what ho likes whom he ht pleases How t tu stu id a dl How now disgusting How ITow die Ie let 1 Ullis passionate t voice w wn breaking could f control it itOh it It Oh Dh T r know what at they'll say sa-r. nr bo be the old old oM on song Whom God Rih joined together cr That's what hat iia iz old church of oC outs ours ha hRs has been eon saying sn or ir r centuries to poor Ioor women with brok brok- liL it b hearts Has lENS the church itself got heart to break Xo nothing Xo nothing but its it laws lawn which have o b h jen tD broken anil times and nobody a penny cnn tic lip h continued I l I But I T r wonder jo In vender why th liy those th churchmen who tn talk lalic lie about t the Hie 11 impo impossibility t of tutting lutting a aMinder whom God Goa lis nan t together dourt Iou t 1 begin in by In asking J Il m olves el how hoT and 1 n and mid where Jod M Joins them T Is h if it in when 1 lir Iii hey y stand before Core tho the altar and arc ell a fe few questions nail ami civo o a few nn If Jf ho 0 o. o then God Gel is r l IQ for ome if th tho mo most t shocking that th over ver disgraced liu- liu all all tho the pride and nna ml ti deliberate that aye vc covered cred themselves in every r o. o and arc aro rOV tb coveri imi J till still the cloak of or marriage no nid Martin lartin II its its it's not ut t. t in ill that GOrl Goil marries I got ol o to o l 11 be married before they th o or op th urn are never married ll tit lit I never Il They've f Lot cot to bo ln married 1 their i.-their their heart for for foi that's 1 God Coil lins people together not in ju churches nd net before priests aud altars 1 jT tT sat at listening to him hini with a rising t nd IId throbbing heart hart and a after another Ito lio into the tho garden i 1 and sat pat 11 ill QU ouse mc me t Marj Mary ran bo ho said sahi in hi hIs biJ pu passionate ionato pirn firn thAt our ase n t o. o i bin isn't nt t it Hi God Coil 01 married us from the very first There Thero ht never been any other oth-er woman for forme forme forme me and thero never nover has been any other man for or vou von von-isn't isn't that BO so my roy darling T Then what are aro they U talking about about these churches and churchmen Its It's they who are ore tho ren real d trying r to put asunder whom God himself has joined to together ether That That's tho plain sense of the matter isn't it itt f fI I was trembling with fear and tation P Perhaps it was tho same samo with mth mo me as it had been beon before perhaps I wanted now noT more than n oyer to believe what Martin was was' yin raying perhaps I did not know enough to be able to answer hun him perhaps ray mJ- overpowering love 6 and the position I stood in compelled me to 3 agree ec But I L could not help it if it it seemed to bio tue that his clear dear mind mind clear clear aa as a mountain river and as swift and stron strong was strong was sweeping away all aU the tho worn out Then what what are wo we to do f I asked him Do 7 Our Our duty dUh- to oaf ourselves my darling dar dar- ling hog that's what wo we have to do If we cannot bo married manid according to the law JaW of oC tho church we must be married marrior according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to tho law of tho the land Isn't that enough f This s i-s our own affair dearest ours and nobody ebos Its It's only a witness we wo want a waY a witness before God and man roan th that t wo we Intend in- in ten tend to bo be man and wife in future But Father Dan Leave Lea him to me mc said Martin Ill I tell teU him im everything But come como into the house now no You are re catching catchin a a. cold coM Valess we e take care they'll kilt kill you before the they've va done Next day da- ho JIO teamed learned over oer the back of m mv my chair as at I tat sat in tho the h with b baby bv in my lily lap Jap and Eai said eaid in a low tone o Ive seen Father Dan Dam Well t The old nn angel el took it badly God forbid orbid that you von should do that same tamo in my boy he paid 3 tl putting both yourself an and thai that K child of mine mino out of at the tho church for over ever Its tho church that's putting u ui UM out out outI I told him But Dot Gods God's holy joly law w condemns it ray my son he said paid Gods God's law Jaw is love Jove and he ne he has no other law aw I II answered ans I wag 35 relieved and yet nervous glad Jad nel yet afraid A week passed and then tho the time timo came carao for Martin to lo o go o to Windsor for tor his investiture iD There had been great at excitement in Sunny Bunny Lodge o in pre para ion tiou for this s event o but hut being a little unwell I had out of tho the ran range e of it I At the moment of or Martins Martin's departure I was wall in bed and ho he had como upstairs to o f say good good-bylo b lo to inc mo What bad had been happening in tho the meantime I hardly knew new but I had gathered that ho bo thought ht pressure would be o brought ht to bear hrar On me mc II Our good cooil old olL church is like a limpet t ton on ii the shore shor ho hn said Once it H gets tats its ts down clown it doesn't let go o in a alinn linn But sit sit- ti tight ht little woman Don ont Dont Jt j ld an inch while Im I'm away he be ic whispered When Wilen be lie left me mc I reached up to see sec him nm going down tho the road to tho the railway ay His old olI father was walking walkin pron b bv his side id b bareheaded od as Mial ansi and still a as 41 blithe an as aa a boy loy Next day aay I was started by b- ban an unexpected tlc telegram ram It camo came from a o. eon con vent in Lancashire and was a to 10 o Mary Man ra 0 ONeill O'Neill care earo of oC Dr Conrad itt t ra ran mu u I i iAm II Am Aiti A matting a round of or visits I to 0 th tI th j h hOues UfoS of ot our society o and nail would wO liko t to see ee you 0 on my way way to Ireland May av I Iro Iros ro ros tomorrow Mother Iother Ma Magdalene CHAPTER She Site ai an arrived rived th the following afternoon afternoon- mv dear reverend mother with tho the palo pale faco face anti and eyes YO Except that hor her habit was now blue and nd white hite instead of black sho she scorned I Ilar h. h changed han in any respect since sinco our Java a 8 at tho the Sacred Finding that I was WM in in bed ho put putLI ut at tho rlou Plough Plough h and LI p camo came every ry mv av Jo nurse me i I r was waR naturally 3 agitated agitate at seeing peeing her pain cain after so many vents and such various experiences experience being uncertain how ranch moch she eho knew of ot them Remembering Martins Martin's warning 1 I Iwas was also fairly certain that she eho had bad been sent for lor but my on both heads soon soon- wore off Her noiseless step tier her soft voice ani An and her sweet soothed and comforted me I J bc began n to feel afresh the tho intia once she aho had exorcised cd ov over r me mo when J I Iwas Iwas was a child thUd and to wonder why during my dark tune time in hi London I hail had never thought of ot writing to her D During the he first days day of her V visit it she said eaid nothing about painful things things- never nover mentioning my warria marriage c or what had bad happened ned since ebe be saw me mo last Jast Her talk was generally our old school and my old schoolfellows SL many of whom came to the tho convent for lor or her herU U retreats which were under tho the spiritual spir direction of at one ono of tho the popes pope's do do- prelates Sometimes she sho h would laugh about our mother of ot the tho novices who had become be como come old and i about tho the little fat Maestro of at the tho popo's popes choir who had cried when I first sang eang the hymn to tho virgin ir n Go Go on little angel I an and sometimes about the tho t two o old lay sisters now now quite nuite toothless who still stUl said Raid I might have bare been beon a n wonderful washerwoman if it itI I had put my mind to it I hate to think that my dear reverend mother was doing this consciously in order to break down my defenses but the effect was the same sarno Little by little dorin during the few days sho was with me rue sho she brid bridged ed tho the spaceS space back Ck to my happy girlhood for insensibly I found myself stirred by the emotions of the convent and Dud breathing a again in the theair theair theair air of ot my ray beloved ed Rome On the aft of tho the fourth day dayoC of oC her visit I was sitting up by hor her side Bide in front o of my window which was wide wido open It was just such a n peaceful even cven- in sag ing as our last one ono at Semi Nemi Kot ot a a. leaf Jt-at was stirring not a wind in tho the air tho the only sounds wo we heard wore were the lowing of the cattle waiting wait to bo be milked the tho soft murmur of or the sea ea and tho the jolting of ot a cart cart that was coming up from the tho shore laden Jaden with sea c wrack Tack As tho sun stirs be began n to sink fink it lit glaz glazing blazin blaz- blaz in ing fires in tho the windows of the tho village in front front especially especially in tho the window of my mothers mother's room which was just jest visible isi ble over tho tops of the apple trees in inthe inthe in inthe the orchard I Tho The reverend mother talked of bene bone diction If she sho were wore in Rome she sho would be in church singing the Ora Orn pro nobi nobis Let Letus us sing it now Shall Shan we wet sho eaid sud Brid At the next moment her deep majeStic majestic ma ma- jes jestic tic contralto accompanied by m my ray myown own thin and quavering soprano were sending out into the silent air the holy notes which to me are like Uke th the reverberations reverberations reverberations of eternity Mater purissima Ora pro nobis Mater castissima Ora pro nobis When hen hene we e had finished J r found my hand l lying in In her lap iap Patting it gently gen gen- en thy she PIne said eaid Mary I am leaving you yea tomor tomor- row So soon 1 Yes but I cant can't go o without telling you ou why hy I came And then her mission mission mis mis- sion was r revealed to tome me roe Sho She had heard about m mr ray marriage o and tho the ruin nun it had bail fallen fo o my my mv disappearance dis iN appearance from home hom and the tho c circumstances circum circum- stances of m mv my rl recovery my husbands husband's petition for divorce orco and the tho disclosures that hat had followed it But nd f-nd and serious nail and even tra tragic ic ng ns all this might be it was as as nothing in the OJ yen eyes o of tho the church and of Go God Coil compared with the a awful gravity grait of the ste I v no now contemplated 1 11 1 marriage e while iny my husband wa 1 still alive alivo She had nothing to say nav a against Martin Martin Mar Mar- ar tin Except tho the facts neb that concerned myself she ehe had ad never nover heard a word to his discredit U Sh She could oven understand under stand those tho fa facts tp though ll she sho could not them Perhaps he ho had bad seen Been ni my nn position marr married rd to a cruel an and u un unfaithful unfaithful un- un faithful husband and his pity had haft developed de dc- dc into love she Jove sho had heard beard of such BUell happenings But only think my child what an abyss ho he is in dri driving you tol tot ITe He asks you vou to break your ria marriage o vows I Oh yes yes I can ce what be lie will win say that that pr's pressure pressure- uro was put upon you and aud you yon wore too voting oung to know what you wore were doing That may mar bo be true but hut it isn't everything I T thought ht it cruelly wrong that your father should choose choos a husband for r von van regard re rc- regard re- re gard to your wish an ana ana l will But Rut it was as you iou ou not Dot ot your father who made your marriage E bows and ant you yet 1 0 can never tr get getaway getaway away from rom that never Those There marriage vows wore were sacred our bl blessed Savior Sa had said sad they could ouM never be bo broken and our holy church had taken his hia commandment for law Think my child only think what would happen to the world if every I woman who ho ha bas bait rondo made an unhappy marriage mar roar ria e wore Were to do as you think of doing What a 3 chaos What That an uprooting of all aU tho the ea sacred rod ties of home and famIly And how women omen would T suffer women and end children above alL Dont Don't you sec Bee that flint mv my daughter The e- e security of society la lay in tho the sanctity of marria marriage e tho the sanctity of lay in its indissolubility and it its centred in in the fact that God was ft n party to it Perhaps you y-ou Ou aro are told that marriage mar mar- ria riago o will Devour own OT concern only and nd that God and ana the church have havo nothing to do o with it But if women hind had believed be he- tiered lia that in all all' ages how bow different tho the world would b bl bo today Oh believe me your marriage maniag vow O is sacred and you cannot break it without sin mortal sin mortal sin my daa daughter Tho moral of all this was that I must renounce Martin Conrad wa wash h my heart eart clean of or my ray love Jove of him shun the temp tation of seeing him again agarn and i if pos poa- biblo bible forget ct him altogether cr It celt will WIn bo he hard hanl I know it will bo be bohard hard hanl but It lilt will bo ho quite impossible I aid as well as I could for m my very lips were trembling I T had been to the d depths of my mv soul by what tho the |