Show r a 0 f ie Woman Thou Gayest Me i. i ING THE STORY OF MARY ONEILL O'NEILL O I I in ritten iiRen by HALL CAINE 1812 by Heart Hearit Ma n Copyright In Great Britain I Copyright ht 1 18 b by 3 J. J B. B Co n 0 well why should I trouble about I It t tier tr r that so 80 little concerns mo As is still sun beautiful j she sho w will lI be bended need laded by y admirers her salon ealon will quent d by the tho fashionable para para- f t Europa and America or my husband tho straw fire of e es e's passion for lor him will soon Boon out ont especially now that she aho has hasI I what she ahe wanted wanted his his name Dam tie Ue- i f rtin carried mo me upstairs to tobed bed toI tou to- to 0 u I I. was ws really feeling weaker but we made mado a great at game gamo amo b went first behind a moun noun U of of pillows Martin Madin and I 1 came camo t with his arms about my body and around aund his neck and Dr 0 hat st carrying two tall bra brass s candle candle- cs s. s tow o 0 we ve laugh laughed d Wo Woo all aU laughed hOO toner to to- ner er er as s if it trying to tb ace which of us Id d f laugh u h the loudest Only Christian serious standing at tho the bot hot of tho stairs nursing baby i in ri her Ms is 3 0 o'clock clock in tb the tho morning as Ie Ie I Ie e end and nd I 1 can hear bear our laughter still ly h it sounds like Ilko sobbing now lv 22 Have Hs heard something to to- t at has taken all the tho warmth of o out t of vie me It is is about m mv my father m Ut the old doctor t till still atten attends Hav Hay boen told of ot my husbands husband's mar mar- 0 Oj OL he has announced his intention laiming I my child if anything hap hap- i to me mel hat his object m maj- maj y he be e I r do not w t.- t. Ho lie cannot be thinking of estaba nga a claim Jn to my iny husbands husband's title title title- y l l being a girl Remembering thing thi Jg Ins his lawyer lawer said about the settlement when whim I consulted ton Jon ou the subject of divorce I can cau assume that now he ho is poor he Tying to recover the inheritance o ho he hoed ledon ed on my hus husband and 1 frightens me raising me-raising raising my old tiare t u re of a lawsuit about the he le- le mac of m my roy child I want to speak BReak Martin about it IL Yet how can I do without tejn telling him lim the truth which lAve yc been struggling It h so hard to con con- 1 L. L ki 23 Oh b Mar Mary Tary 0 ONeill O'Neill Neil what are arc if com coming Ig Ho to tot f told Martin about fathers father's threat y l. I gave ga it another color Ho He had bad ird of the reverend mothers mother's visit I I. eaid said the rumor had reached m my her that I intended to enter a a con con- conSt it t and he had hall declared that if I did hc he IQ would claim my child from ristian An Ann ABU being its nearest blood ti n. n Can C n lie ho do so so- so when so-when when ben I J t 1 am 6 1 en n we are arc gone f I J asked thought Martins Martin's stron strong face looked ed than than n I had bad cv ever r teen seen it He TIe HeIe Ie e ea a vague rep reply and loft left me soon soon on some sone sort of excuse e. e an hour bour later ho be came back to tory toty I Iry ry ty me upstairs and just as he ho was wasting tin ting Ling me inc down and Christian Ann incoming coining in with tho the candle he Dont Worry worn about Girlie I Ive I've e elIed tied lIed that matter matteri Im I'm J thinking 7 That has ho he done clone T r wonder OF MARTIN CON CON- V IV c RAD HAD That hat I had bad done is eaRn told toM r I 1 hail had to Daniel ONeill O'Neill himself to know the tho truth troLl of the to act accordingly 1 ready Already I knew enough to scent mis mis- mf ef I could not be bo so stupefied into of what was going oin on un under er as not to sec that the tho dirt dirty stion shon of ot money and aud the tier question ot ot the che aims and ions lons of tim tho woman MacLeod were the root of the matter matte that was RS dis dis- ina m my darling aDiel 0 ONeill O'Neill had left the bi big lr OD to live o in in- his mothers mother's old tage for two reasons reasons first first to delude Jaw aw into the tho idea hat hat he ho was wai as him him- utterly ruined mined b by the ban bankruptcy kru which ho lie hail had brou brought bt time tho whole is is- d and aud next to gratify the greed his who o o. o ogot got ct him herself berscH at the end so that he might persuaded persuade J to marry her ber if 5 i it were v on his deathbed and t so 60 o establish an any claim of h his i daughters lau t her lows low's ri rights in what a husband ve veri behind him which him which is half balf of in Ellan Elian bat connection thia had with the mm Ii n's ns s 's 8 desire to get et hold of tho the child ad vet to but I meant to learn without t another hours hour's del delay a to so I for tim the cottage on the curra curragh h. h t was hTow growing ng dark and not bein being n mv my tra vay through the tho over ecer chant chanCo Path bypaths of if the tho hot hog land I J called Father Dan to guide inc me Th The old oM seemed to know my 1113 errand tho tier my mv darling bad ball communicated a as Iret- Iret being common knowledge c and first firs h hp hi looked d afraid i l. l Veil Well yes s why t J 1 H 1 ho lie said And then e es es I will I will vill with with the no air nir of a an n II n. n who nO had bad made up UI hi his mind to a 1 aing aing in ing enterprise Jur ur c curragh is a stretch of oC wild rah over against the sea un un- med ined only partly cultivated half covered with sedge and bushes and to heavy mists There Thero was a mist over it that night and hence it was as not easy y even evon for Father Dan accustomed to midnight ht visits to curragh cottages to find nd the house which had hud once been tho the home of at Neale Kealo the Lord We Wo rooted I it out at last by help of tho the parish constable who was standing at the tho corner of a Si byroad talking to tho the coachman of a gorgeous carriage waiting wait wait- I ing jag there with its ita two splendid horses smoking cracking in the thick night air When over tho the shingle of what we wo call t the e street wo we rc reached the low straggling crofter cottage under its Us thick tree treo supposed to tp keep off tho the evil spirits I rapped with ith my knuckles at the tho door and it was opened by y a a. tall taU scraggy woman wi with h a n a candle in her hand This was as Nessy MacLeod harder and uglier than thea over or with her red hair combed up giving givin her tho the appearance of a bunch of of carrots over over two stalks of rhubarb Almost A thio before I I had time t to say that we had hud come to see seo Mr 0 ONeill O'Neill and to toI I step tep into the tho house bouse while saying so sos a hoarse husk husky husk querulous mans man's voice voce cried from WI within hin Who Who is it Nes Nessy f fIts Its Father Dan and Martin It 4 w rt I II Incan JDean mean Sir do do I said and tho the next moment we wo were were- in in tho living room room room-a a abare bare bleak comfortless kitchen A more incon incongruous sight than wo we saw there human eyes never ne beheld Daniel ONeill O'Neill a u shadow of tho the big brute brute- creature ho he once was a n dIed old man with his bony hands hanUs scored and contracted like like- an an autumn leaf his bis shrunken legs scarcely showing through his baggy trousers his square face whiter than the wall behind it and a piece of red flanel hanging over his head like a cow cowl sat in tho the elbow chair at tho the side of the hearth fire while at t a deal table which was ed I with papers that looked Hk like law aw deeds aud and share sharo certificates being stamped I and sealed sat sat the tho bisho bishop of the island and antI its leading lawyer Mr Cur Cur- phy On bearing hearin my name namo and seeing me me enter cuter tho the house Daniel ON ONeill O'Neill oil lost host all aU control of himself Ho struggled to his feet by help of a stick and as I walked up to him he be laid laitI hold bold of i nc JUC c. c You devil ho cried You in infernal infernal in fernal villain 1 You Yon I was half sorry for tho the man badly as I thought of J him m s so so I only open opened his tiis hand easy enough to do f for the grip was gone one from it and said Youre an old man sir and you youre you're Ire Irea a sick man man man-don't don't dont tempt mo mc to forget that hat you yon are th the father of Mary ONeill O'Neill Sit down He Tie sat flat down breathless am and broken without another word But the bishop with a lar large c air of outraged cd dignity faced about to poor Father Dan who was standing near the door turning his round hat bat in ill his trembling hands and said Father ather Donovan did you know that Mr fr ONeill O'Neill was very ill I I did monsignor said Father Dan And And that a sur surgeon eon is coming from London to perform an operation upon that that him him did did you know I I did clid mon monsignor Did you know also that I was here nere toni tonight bt to attend with ith Mr Curphy to important affairs and perhaps discharge some sacred duties I knew that tob too monsignor t Then l Then said the tho bishop pointing at me how dare daro you brin bring this man here this here this man of all others who has been the chief instrument in brin bringing ing shamo shame and disgrace up upon up-ou ou our poor sic sick friend and his deeply injured ea family So that's how you ou look 1001 at it is it monsignor I Yes sir that is how I look at it and andI I am nm sorry for a priest of 1113 mr church I who has luis so weakened his conscience by sympathy with notorious Dinners sinners as to sec thin things s in riny any riny other li light ht Sinners bishop t you on hear bear mo me Father ather Donovan Dono van 1 Or do tIo you desire mo me mo to uso use a hard harder r name for them them for for one of them in parti particular ular on whom you jou havo have wasted so much weak sentimentality to tho the injury 0 of your our spiritual influence c and aDIl the tho demoralization demoralisation of oC your parish I have havo warned you ou already Do you wish 1511 me rae to go JO further to remove you ou from frona your tery or perhaps report your conduct to those who have power to take th the frock rock oil off your lackl What standard of sanctity for the sacrament of holy matrimony I do you von expect to lI while you ou de degrade ra e it bs by openly asso associating with a aJ woman woman who has broken her ber marriage e vows and become little better better T I grieve o to say it with a deep inclination of the heal head toward the poor wreck in the tho elbow chair little better than a common com corn 41 to toI mon men OU III I T 1 saw the word that was WIS comin coming and anel andI anelI I r was out in ii nu an in instant taut But there wasI was I t somebody lH before fore me It It was waH Father Dan The timid old nr est seemed to break in ono one moment tho the bonds of a li ii long life t raI I hat that von vou say nor ho cried m in ina a shrill voice Olce I I degrade the sacrament of oC holy matrimony or Nef-or in his bis world But if theres there's anybody any any- body in tho the island of ElUn lilian who has done dODO that samo ove o every day of his life lite its it's yourself nn and never vcr moro more moro cruelly and shamefully I than in n the tho case caso casp were we're talking af afat of at this present speaking Im Pm not used to this kind of Ian lan from frOH my ray clergy Father Donovan Donovan Dono Dono- van an began the bisho bishop but before ho could say moro Father Dan caught him bim up crying II Perhaps not monsignor or But you youve you've yo yoot got cot ot to toi hear for once once and that's now When this man man pointing to Daniel Dani 1 ONeill O'Neill for his own purposes cs wanted to marry his daughter who was as a child and hat had no choice in tho the matter to ono of another faith a man man who didn't believe in the sacrament of marriage as we know it who was it that paved tho the way for him I You actually mean that I I I mean that without your help monsignor a good girl could nevor never have I been married to a n bad had man You I didn't act in ignorance either cither When somebody ly told toM you you somebody who is is here bere now that now that the man Aman to whom you I were going goin to marry that innocent girl I Iwas was waa a notorious loose liver a profligate profligate profligate-ll a reprobate a betrayer OI of S women an ana and ana anda a 3 damned scoundrel Go on Father Dan that's Go Gos Go's s 's own name for him I said when the theold theold old priest caught his breath for a a moment mo mo- men meat teni terrified ed by tho the word that had burst from his lips Lets have havo an nn end md of this said tho the bishop ishop mightily Wait a a a. bit sir I said and then Father Pathor Dan wont went on to ea say how bow ho bo had been told there was nothing to to tomy mysto my sto story y and how how he ho had b ben cn forbidden to inquire into lUtO it I I how you m made dc me mc a party to this wicked marriage God Gorl and aud His HI holy mother pardon mel And now that it has come como to fo tho end you might have expected and tho the poor helpless child who was bought and ana sold cold like liko a sla slave e eis is in tho position tion of tho the sinner you OU want mo me to cut her hor oft off off to turn the hearts heats of all good people against her to cast her hor out of communion to mako make her a thing to point the tho finger fingor at me at-me me her spiritual father who baptized her taking her out of the arms of the tho an angel cl who bore her and ana Jl giving jn her herto to Christor Christ Christ- or if I wont won't you'll deprive mo inc me of my mv living ning you'll r report mo me to Rome Romo you'll R you'll unfrock K me mc to Do it monsignor cried Father Dan taking a step nearer nearer to tho the bishop and lifting a trembling hand over his head Do it if our holy church will permit you and Ill I'll put a wallet on m ray my old shoulders and go go- o round the houses of my parish in my old age be begging gin a bite bito o of bread and a basin of meal and aDd sleeping under a thorn thon bush rather than la lay my head on on my mr pillow and know that that poor victim of your wicked scheming is in the road The Tho throbbing und find breaking of the theold theold theold old priests priest's voice ha had c compelled m me met metto to drop my Lead head and it was wu not until I heard the of o the tho lock ock on the outer door that I re realized that overcome by his bis emotion he had fled from the tho house bouse And now I you von can follow your our friend raid aid Dan Daniel ol 0 ONeill N em Not No yet ot sir I answered c I I have o something to say first fird Well well what is isit it please said the tho l lawyer wye sharply and insolently looking looking looking look look- ing to where r was standing with folded old d darms arms at one ono side Bide of the hear soon enough h Master Curphy I answered Then Then turning taming back to Daniel ONeill O'Neill I told him what rumor had reached my dear ono one of his intentions intention with regard to her child and asked him to to say tay whether there was any truth in it Answer the tho man Curphy y said laid Daniel 0 ONeill O'Neill and tho the lawyer lawyer law lawyer yer with almost equal insolence turned to to o me and said II What is it you wish to know mow sir Whether if Mary fary 0 ONeill O'Neill is iR from an any cause to keep keel control of ot her child which God forbid her bier father intends to ta take e possession of it 7 Why Thy shouldn't he hot 1 If tho the mother dies for instance her father will bethe bo be bothe bothe the childs child's le legal al guardian But if by that time timo tho the father is dead too what too what then Then the control of tho the child will will will- with tho consent of the tho court devolve court upon his heir and representative Meaning this lady I asked aske pointing to the tho woman MacLeod who was now standing |