Show 1 3 mr fagins fagin s secretary g by MALCOLM BROWN c 1922 whalorn newspaper union S so 0 youre the young man that thinks k q lie can net act as my secretary hey ley inquired mr pagan fagan swinging rou bourn in his snivel siv 1 l chair and staring at blake under a pair of bushy gray eyebrows nine tind and twenty ive down today but it if you think you xou can manage shake hands 1 lie ic gave mr pagan ills hand and felt a peculiar pressure of the flug gers is bich ills on oin leaped to inept then 1 I left college last year sir air lie began 1 I can tut tut young man maril replied the eccentric consider yourself en gnad d it warms my iny heart to lo meet iau im a judge of men and were both rr irishmen ishmen aint wea we indeed ue ie are said blake entrust a and so lie he went sent to work an annl proved highly lilg lily efficient effic fent lerit bloke had troubles about this fine one was his ability to discover how it could be that a man of fagans I 1 iiii is apparent limited education lind had gone through college the other ans fagans daughter muriel it was a case of love at first sight with both the young people it aas about two months after his introduction to the manufacturers dimise that he found himself seated be side miss muriel upon the piazza ile he took tonic her hand and drew the girl to idin and kissed tier her muriel dearest he said do you know I 1 have loved you ever since I 1 set eyes on oil you muriel blushed so divinely that there was nothing to do but repeat the ep episode liole rut but I 1 dont know what your father X w ill if say pay iio he said with the timid fear of lovers if lie he discharges me will giai aal wait muriel for ever she whispered beside ican I 1 can via it in over papa what Is a alpa so it happened that when lie he stood before balfore his oni employer Noyer and stammered out liis his story in the way young men approach wealthy old gentlemen pagans fagans eyes used fixed themselves es upon makess nia kess shirt front and narrowed to needle lines may I 1 ask ash you why you are ing a green tle tie on this dakof day vf all days mr air blake Rl alce he demanded with ominous us colin cililo why said blake hesitating you F sec today Is the anniversary of the buttle of the boyne a day abhorrent to till nil good irishmen and w blakes great grandfather had been hadged for treason in the days of hubert emmet i fagan leaped out of his chair with the agility of a tiger scoundrel scum of Lime limerick ricki 1 he celled i belled to insult a good belfast man liy by flaunting the green flag flaga I 1 youre fired ill have your pay sent you I 1 crimp come papa what Is all this about interposed muriels soothing voice lies iles wearing of the green and on this day of all dayal stormed her har fattier father dear for my sake listen pleaded muriel 1 I dm am sure that arthur mr blake can explain everything rather father she pleaded we love each other but hes a damned rebel molly and and the infernal impudence of it I 1 tell him its nil all a mistake arthur pleaded muriel it aint a mistake its just treachery roared lr her father nine and twenty good men fine men I 1 turned down that morning till he be gave me the grip gilp what grip demanded blake the grip of the united orange mens brotherhood roared the old man the grip I 1 gave you yon answered blake was that of the alpha omega mu alu fraternity I 1 had been told it helped a man to get geta a position by giving it I 1 tho thought you were a college may man old fagan stared at him in stupid vron dor then give tile me that grap again he said and blake all against the fraternity rules delivered it my aly fault lie acknowledged you got your thumb crossed in the wrong wron place it must have been my gout had made we me imagine well young I 1 fellow maybe ill let xou ou keep your j job b 11 I 1 and how about pagan fagan inquired the other muriel my daughter t ill see you I 1 er now dont cry molly dear I 1 guess elie goes with the job |