The
next, she shrank in burning confusion, for when Jimmy Malone had
asked for her love, she had admitted to him that she loved Dannie,
and Jimmy had told her that it was no use, Dannie did not care for
girls, and that he had said he wished she would not thrust herself
upon him. On the strength of that statement Mary married Jimmy
inside five weeks, and spent years in bitter repentance.
That was the thing which held her now. If Dannie knew what she did,
and did not care to marry her, how could she mention it? Mary
began to grow pale, and lose sleep, and Dannie said the heat of the
summer had tired her, and suggested that she go to Mrs. Dolan's for
a weeks rest. The fact that he was willing, and possibly anxious to
send her away for a whole week, angered Mary. She went.
Chapter XI
THE POT OF GOLD
MARY had not been in the Dolan home an hour until Katy knew all she
could tell of her trouble. Mrs. Dolan was practical. "Go to see
Father Michael," she said. "What's he for but to hilp us. Go ask
him what Jimmy told him. Till him how you feel and what you know.
He can till you what Dannie knows and thin you will understand
where you are at."
Mary was on the way before Mrs. Dolan fully finished. She went to
the priest's residence and asked his housekeeper to inquire if he
would see her. He would, and Mary entered his presence strangely
calm and self-possessed. This was the last fight she knew of that
she could make for happiness, and if she lost, happiness was over
for her.
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