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A Comedy of Youth Founded by Mr. Manners on His
Great Play of the Same Title—Illustrations
From Photographs of the Play
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?Ley are past They are sacred in
O'Connell'. heart They will be to the
btetodan. _,�
Thanks to some kindly tria+limen
who beard of O'Connell's plight. be
to wed enough money to bury his
dead wife and place a tablet to ber
memory.
Ile sent a message to KInganorth
telling him of his elster'a death. Ile
neither expected nor did be receive an
answer. As soon as it was poslbl
he returned to Ireland and threw elm
re!f once again heart and soul int
working for the 'cense." He realised
hi+ only hope of keeping his belane
w:aa to work. He went back to lb
little village he was torn in. and 1
Sena rather Cahill); hands that pour
rd the baptlarnal waters on O'Con
nell'a and Angela's baby. and It was
Father Cabill'a voice that read the
baptismal et•rvlee.
She was clrlatened Margaret
Angela, one night, when It was neat.
log her time, begged him if 1t were a
girl to christen her Margaret, after ber
mother, since ail the best In Angela
came from her mother.
O'Connell would have liked much to
re.: mite Angela. But his dead
wales wisp:.; c,epuiimouni. 80 Mar-
garet
argaret tie baby was cbristegert It
was too dlatingulsbed a name and too
on, for such a little bundle of ,pink
and white humanity. it did not tee111
to fat her. So "l'eg" she was named
and "Peg" she remained for the rest
of her life.
Looming large In Peg's memories hi
after life was ber father showing her -
St. iieruan'a hill and pointing out tbe
mount on which he stood end spoke
th:nt day, while her mother, bMden by
that dense mass of trees, saw every
movement and heard every word
Then aotneboa her childish thoughts
all seemed to nun to home rnle-to lore
of Ireland and hatred of England -ft
thinking all that was good of irt•b-
m.•n and all that was bad of EnetLsb-
men.
'Why do ye bate the English se
much. father?" she naked, O'Connell
once. Ioot:ug up :It him with a puzzled
IooL in her big blue eyes and tbe must.
adorable brogue coming fresh from
ber tongue.
"Why du ye bate them?" she re -
pea asst.
• ('le good cause t.a. Peg, me darlire."
he answered. and a deep frown gather-
ed on in brow.
"Sure wasn't me mother En:lister
I'eu: est e.L
"title was."
'Then why do ye hate the Eugtlshr
'It 'ad take a long time to tell ye
that, Peggy. fume day 1 wilL There's
many a reason why the Irish hate tbe
English. and many a good reason too.
But there's one why you and 1 sbouki
bate them and bate them with all the
blttberness that's in us."
'And what is it?" said Peg curiouaiy.
'PH tell ye. When yer mother and
I were almost staaryin', and she lyra'
on a bed of sickness, she wrote to an
Englis�man nn' caked him to 'toilet
her. An' (hit is tbe reply abe got:
'Ye've trade yer bed. Lie In 1t" That
was the answer she got tbe day be-
fore you were torn, and she died Ov-
id' ye life. And by tbe same token
the man that wrote that shameful .
message to a dyin' woman was ber
own brutliti,"
gift Qwn brother, yer Lenin' mer
asked l'eg wrathfully.
"I am. I'eg. Iter own brother. Pm
Willi' ye."
"it's bad luck that man'U have all
his life.^ saki I'eg fiercely. 'To write
me mother that -an' she dyta'1 Faith
I'd like to see him Dome day -lust
meet him -an' ten him"- She.tepped,
ber little Soren clinched tato a minla-
ture fist
want
Ile avoided the possibility of Im-
petsonmeut again for the sake of Peg.
What would befall ber If be were tak-
en from beef
the eontibuai thought that preyed
upon blm was that be would bare
nothing to leave her wben els call
' came. Do what he would, be etuti`d
make but little money, and when he
had a small surplus be would spend ft
i on i'eg-a shawl to keep her warm or
■ ribbon to give a gleam of color to
I the drab little ttotbea.
I On great occasions he would buy
e her a new dress. and then l'eg was
- I the priuuicst little child in the whole
e of lrel:an.1.
Every year on the anniversary of
e ' her ruvth..r's ale:,t ti O'Connell bad a
e mass sit for the repose of Angela's
t soul. nod he would kneel beside Peg
through the service and be silent for
the rest of the day. One year be had
candies Messed 1 y the archbishop lit
on Our Lady's altar, and he stayed long
after the acrvtce rias over Ile sent
1 Pe, home. But. although 1'cg obeyed
him partially by fearing the church,
she kept watch outside until ber fa -
Ithey came out Ile was wiping bis
eyes as he saw her Ue pretended to
Ibe vers angrc. -
"hadn't I tr'1 yeio CO home?" L t'
"Ye dld, f. tier"
I 'Then why didn't ye obey mer
"Sure an' what would I be doth' at
! home, all alone, without yen? Don't
be erect with are, father,"
I be took her hand, and they walked
home In silence. If had M1ecti (tying,
! and Peg could not nnderstah t it. She
had nerer seen him do such a thing be-
fore, aid it worried her. It did not
seem right that a man shonld cry. It
Seemed a weakness, rind that her fa-
ther of all men ebould do It, he who
was not afraid of anything or any one,
was wholly unaccountable to her.
When they reached home Peg basted
herself about her father, trying to
make him comfortable, furtively watch.
ing him all the while. When she had
lint bier in an easy chair and brought
him his slippers and built up the fire
she sat .+own on a Ilttle stool by his
side. After a long silence she stroked
the tack of hie band and then gave
him a little tug. Ile looked down at
her.
"What Is 1t Pegr
"Was my mother very beautiful, fa -
thee:" •
"Tbe moat beautiful woman that
ever lived in all the wnrrld, Peg."
"She looks beautiful fu the picture
ye bare of her."
From the Inside pocket of bps coat
be drew out a little beautifully paint-
ed miniature. The frame bad long
miner been worn and frayed. O'Con-
nell looked at the face, and his eyes
shone.
'Tbe man that painted It eoeldn't
pat the soul of her Into ft That be
couldn't: not the soul of her.'
"Am I tike ber at a11. father?" asked
Peg wistfully.
"Sometimes ye ere. dens
After a little pause
"Te loved her yen
didn't ye?"
Ile nodde.l. "t lured
tbe heart of me and ail t I
me."
Peg sat q:`et for some
she asked him a question
and bung In suspense on
'Do ye love me as muc
her, father.*'
"It's different, Peg, quite.
ferent"
gait/ dif-
ferent-
CHAPTER VIII.
Far the Cause.
oCONNELL had changed very
much since the days of St Her-
nun's hill. As was foreshad-
owed earlier, he no longer urged
violence Ile had come under the In-
fluence of the more temperate men of
the {,arty and was content to win by
legislative means what Ireland bad
failed to accomplish wholly by con-
flict, although no one recognised more
tborongbly than O'Connell what a
large pan the determined attitude of
the Irish party in resisting the F.ng-
IaM laws, depriving them of the right
of free speech and of meeting to
served light among the Iigooraet, bad
played in wrt•gt•g seem measure lit
reeegnttlss gad et tolerance from the
English minister's.
Wbst chaapd O'Connell snore par-
ticularly was the action of • band of
se called "patriots" who operated la
many parts et Iraaa--' slming est -
e*. ruining teem Wenn peecesbbs
ultimata who dM got ted their biddies
gar shooting at heOri tad pr ed -1
tat _psepie eaume ed with the sever&
CHAPTER
r, very like."
I'eg said:
much. fatbef
her with ■a
he strength o?
minute,: thee
very quietly
his answer:
h as ye bored
"Irby b It?' She waited
Ile db sot answer.
'Sure. love le love whether ye feet
It for a woman or • child," she Mr'
aimed.
O'Connell remained silent
"Did ye line bee betther titan ye
love me, htherr Her soul esu In bee
great blue eyes as abe waited excitedly
for the answer to that, to ber, memem-
toes question.
"Why do ye ask me that?" ells
O'Connell
'ite.'sese i always feel a little sharp
pain right througb my heart wheneret
ye talk about me mother. Te age, La-
ther. Ire tbotlgbt •11 there years that
I was the one ye really hired" -
le re the only ore I have- 1hi the
wurrld. Peg."
"And ye don't bre ber memory 14
thee than ye do seer
O'oo•eell put both of bis algid
around her.
"Ter mother is trtth thete. Peg,
e nd hen are ran by me s sees
theta's room in me heart for the mea .
ory of ber and the love et you."
She br•entbed a Ilttle sigh of ma
faction and nestled on to her fathers
shoulder. Tile Ilttle et of cbadiab josh
sap of her deed mother's place to Mr
father's tears passed.
KM wanted no one m attar. bet A-
tbers affertloo wttb ber. She gar. Mae
all of hen. She needed ell of eta
When Peg was eighteen years old
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In -Pew i'ur► 'T' •ptw.led fu vi
The additional mercy would ma
things easter for Peg She was almost
a woman Dow, and he wanted her
get the finishing touches of educed°
that Would prepare ber for a poetic)
in the world If abe met the man s
felt she could marry. N'nerlt•ver
would speak or marriage l'eg won
laugh scornfully:
"Who would I be aftber marryln',I'
like to ►now? WW"bere In the wart
would 1 find a man like your
And no coaxing w•oukl make ber es
ry on tbe discussion or consider 1
possibility.
to: ods of the day and outlined her stalk*
ke from bis own slender stock of koowi
t edge.
to One wonderful day they bad,an ad
o artisan to tbelr small family. 1 littie,
n wiry haired, scrubby, melancholy Irish
be terrier followed O'Connell for miles.
be Be tried to drive him away. Tbe dog
Id would turn and run for a few second;
gad the moment O'Connell would take
4 his eyes off bim be would run aloug
Id and catch him up and wag bit over-
long tall and look op at O'Connell with
r' bb led eyes. Tbe dog renewed him
ts all the way borne, and wben O'Connell
opened the door he ran In Oloaaell
trembled and broke:
`tog, do ye remember one morale',
rim
' ah o hen I wag o
. In' to anspeakyein Counagtywg
31ayo, an' we
started in the cart at dawn, an' we
tbrareled for miles an' miles, an' we
earn* to a great big croastn' where
the roads dlvtded an' there was no
signpost, an' we asked each other
which one we should take, an' we
eocldn't make up our minds, an' I left
it to you. an' ye picked a road, an' it
brought us out sate and tbrne at the
spot We were maktn' for? Do you re-
member It, Pegr
"Faith i do• father. I remember It
well. Ye called me yer little guide
and said ye'd follow my road tbe rest
of yer life. An' It's many's the laugh
we had *hen I'd take ye wrong some-
ti0ra afterward." She paused. "What
ct''its ye t"ink of twat JuEt Sow, I'S'tb-rr•
IIe dad not nnswet,
It !+
0 9Cr!C1. i d''that IettaerT" aha
1It 1 <; �fileu
It still harassed him to think be ha
so little to lcare ber If anything hap-
pened to him. The offer to go to Amer-
ica
menIca seemed providential. Her mother
was buried there. Ile would take Peg
to ber grave.
Peg grew very thougbtfnl at the tiles
of 1.-�1'r Ireland. All her little Utes
and dhlikes jrifmpolsfve affections
d bad not the bean to torn him out, so
be poured out some milk and broke op
some dry biscuits for him and theo
played with him until Peg came borne.
She liked the little .lug at once, and
then and (bete O'Cuunell adopted hies
and gave hien to Peg- Ile said the
dog's face had a lac.; Jf Jtkb"el
Ian, the Fenian. :.1 !tithed bE esu
rimmed, and b* took his place in tic
H
Il.ele ilnely o t'lvane refsGoon
�ompat,iod. They Mtyred together
lke children, bbd they talked to each
oth:r and bsderetood each other.
and hot haf'(d, were ,.:and up 1a the
mutiny She dreaded the pt;oep.:.'t or
meeting a number of new people.
btil!• It was for her father's r;,od, so
abe tweed a brave face to it and said:
"Sare It is the finest thing In tea
eosin for both of tie."
But the bint before they left Ire
land abe sat by the Ilttle window 1e
ker bedrnnm until daylight looking
Irick through all the years of ber abort
life.
it seemed a• 1f sbe were entttng off
all that beautiful golden period. Sbe
would nerer again know the free. care-
less. happy-go-lucky. Irving from day
to day existence that abe bad loved so
much.
It was a pale, wistful, tired llttls
I'eg that joined her father at break-
fast next morning.
kilts heart was heavy too. But be
laughed and joked and sant[ and Bald
how glad they ought to he --going ib
that wonderful new country and, by
the way, the country Peg oras boro In
too' And then be faughed wain and
aald bow One she looked and bon well
he felt and that It seemed as if it were
God's hand in it all.
And I'eg pretended to cheer up, and
they acted their parts right to the end
-until the last line of land disappear-
ed ■od tbey were beaded for America.
Then tbey separated and went to their
little cabins to think of all that bad
been. And crery day they kept up the
little deception with each other until
they reached America.
`They were cbeerleas days at Ant for
O'Connell. Everything reminded blm
of his first landing twenty years be-
fore with eat young te3fe-both so full
of hope• with the future stretching out
like acme wonderful panorama before
them Ile returns twenty years older
to begin the Ogbt again -this time for
his daughter.
His wife was buried ib a little Cath-
olic cemetery a few tones outside Mew
York city. There be took Peg one day,
sad they put flowers on the Ilttle
mound of earth and knelt awhile in
prayer. Beoeetb that earth lay not
only bis wife's remains. bat O'Con-
nell's early hops and ambitious were
buried with ber.
Neltber spoke either going to or re-
turning from the cemetery. O'Ooe-
nell's heart wail 100 foil. Peg knew
what was passing through bb mind
e nd sat with ber bands folded In bar
lap -.(lent But her little broils was
busy thinking back.
Peg bad much to think of during the
! early days following her arrival to
New York. At Ont the city awed her
with its huge buildings and ceaseless
whirl of activity and noise. She low
ed to be back 1n het oven little groes,
beautiful country.
O'Conner wag away daribg those
:est days until late at ntgbt
He found a school tot r.g. bbe did
not want to go to tt bat lest to please
ber fatter abe agreed SW lasted 1e t
jest one week They laughed at her
iia and teased and tormented her
at 1R Omelets het of kaowleya
1114 ti>t ep with that jest se long se
utas gwaa. Thea one day .be opened
set • them Riad assoalsbed Ikea
They meld not have boon more mew
d had a bomb erpiad.d 1. Omsk
Mile. Tbe ilttN, timid bobles ONE 1
WM. Titian Mired girl was a veritable
virago. She etteek.d gad matted sell
mimk't.d ass berated thea They
bed talked of her brogue! They iamb!
geese te flair ewe meet asbmfa 0..
that sounded as W they were speakieg
with their mass and sot with their
tiwseset Wes the toucher slid set go
unse abet She mem le for as et
atilt toe_ That dosed Peg's carter
as . New in .!wrest
Her tether arranged els Rett • that
•e asey be wleb PO'
1. The den's towed quietly on, O'Con
i Yell f.pperently satisfied will his lot.
but to Peg's sharp eye all was not
I well with him- There was a settled
melancholy about him whenever she
surprised him 'thinking alone. She
thought be was fretting for Ireland
and their happy days together and so
said nothing.
Ile was really worrying over Peg's
future. lie bad such a small amount
of money put by, and working on a
salary It would be long before he
could save enough to leave Peg suffi-
cient to carry ber on for awhile 1f
"anything happened." There was al-
ways that It anything happened" run-
ning in his mind.
CHAPTER IX.
Peg's Future.
ONE day the chance of solving the
whole difficulty of Pegs future
was placed 1n O'Connell's
bands But the means were so
distasteful to him that be hesitated
about even telling her.
He came On unexpectedly to tbe early
afternoon of that day and found a let-
ter waiting for him with an English
postmark. Peg had eyed It curiously
off and on for hours. She had turned
It over and over 1n her fingers and
looked at tbe curious, angular writing
and felt a Utile told shiver run up and
down her as she found herself wonder-
ing who could be writing to her father
from England.
Wben O'Connell walked In and pick-
ed the letter up she watched Um ex-
citedly. She felt. for some strange res -
son. that they were going to reaeb •
crisis la their lives when (be seal was
broken and the contents disclosed.
Buperstitioa was strong in Peg, and all
that day she had been necrosis without
reason and excited wttboat cause.
O'Connell reed the letter through
twice, slowly the first time, quickly the
second A look of bewilderment tame
across bit face as be let downs and
stand at the tetter to W band,
"Woo v It from at aur asked Peg
very quietly, though she was trembling
all through ber body.
Her hither said sothlatg.
Presently be read it though again.
"Ira heel Zeeland, father, ion It?"
gasetsd Peg, pale es a ghost.
Ras. Pam" answered her father. and
We vole* sotltded hollow and spirit.
lata
didn't know ye bad friends la Zee'
land" said Peg. eying the letter.
"I hevee't" replied her Lather.
'Teen wbo la it neer insisted Peg,
sow all tmpetitaeo sad with a strange
fear tagging at her heart
looted up et her ea .ilei
stood t startag dew* et W. bee'
big eyes .pea gad bet Nps part.
•d life took both eL her halide la sae
of ids and bald them eh crashed to-
g ether for what se.sls4 to Poi is be •
long, long while liths hardly breath-
ed. She knew ..01sllbhag erne seams
to happen to teem bath.
Atl let and bis voles
actmetapuie.
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b. Pea" tie spoke with dtMeet-
ty, as 1f the words hurt him to speak.
'We're got to a great big croasin'
place again where the roads branch
off, anI dont know which one to
to Lacs"
"Are ye gotn' to fare It to h,e again.
father?" said Peg. ,
"That's what I can't make np m.
mind about. dear, for 1t may be that
ye'Il go down one road and me down
the other."
"No, father," Peg Med passionately,
"that we won't. Whatever the road
we'll thrarel 11 together'
"I'll think It out by meself. Peg.
Lave me for awhl!e-aloe•. I want to
throat it out by meself-alone."
"It it's separation ye're thtnktn' of
make op yer mind to nae thing -that
n rievrr lave yei1. Neirrl"
'Take Michael out for • spell and
rime back in balf an tour: and In the
aseanwbile 1'U tate 11 all out 111 me
mind."
She bent down and atrai.htened the
furrows in his (urehead wit the tips
of her fingers and kissed him and then
whistled to the wistful 311, Intel, and
His Other mater.
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