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For beauty and kindliness it was the Garden of Eden; but there has never been a day when I was not sick for Aghadoe." "And how did you know at last?" his father asked. His mother could only look at him with shining eyes. "Why, some one came from these parts to enlighten my blindness. He was hunting for treasure.
We had always been very proud and exclusive at Aghadoe. A little while after that dinner at Damerstown Nora confessed to me with tears that she had stolen out in my absence and had lain in wait for Richard Dawson.
"Every one makes money except the gentry," my grandfather grumbled, "and we grow poorer year by year." My grandfather talked freely in my presence; and I knew that Aghadoe Abbey was mortgaged to the doors and that the mortgages would be foreclosed at my grandfather's death.
I should come to you on the wings of the wind if there was not a reason that I must stay a little while, and if it were not that some one is hurrying to Aghadoe whom I can trust to tear the web of lies to pieces. He will come in time, and I shall not long delay to follow. And you are mine and I am yours for ever and ever. "Your devoted "Anthony Cardew."
But my own troubles were so imminent and pressing as almost to push that out. How was I going to tell them at the last hour, too with my wedding-dress home, and the wedding-breakfast cooking in the big kitchens, with a stir of life we had not had in Aghadoe for many a day? It was well the journey did not take very long, or I don't know how I should have endured the strain on my nerves.
"If I could survive your grandfather," she said, turning away her head, "my heart would break to leave Aghadoe. I ask nothing of you and Theobald, Bawn, but that you should take care of each other when we are gone. It is not right that the old should burden the young."
They have, what my dear godmother confessed to me she had not dared to hope for a child, a boy brave and beautiful, worthy to succeed his father in time as the Lord St. Leger. There is no bonnier boy in all the countryside except my own, and he is the image of his father, so it is not likely that any child could be just like him. But the young heir fills Aghadoe Abbey with joy and peace.
Aghadoe Abbey was dear to us as flesh and blood. Was it possible that it could pass away from us into the possession of the Dawsons? Why, I would a thousand times rather that fire had it and that it should be consumed to ashes.
He was a brother of Sir Gerald Dease, and a man very much liked. It was during this election that I was fired at one night at Aghadoe, returning from Puck Fair at Killorghin.
He had the most romantic stories attaching to him, such stories as were sure to please a young girl's fancy. It was to be sure not a name we mentioned at Aghadoe. Indeed, even before I knew about Uncle Luke there was something that forbade my talking of the Cardews before Lord and Lady St. Leger or before my godmother.
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