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Title: Love of Brothers

Author: Katharine Tynan

Release Date: December 7, 2008 [EBook #27445]

Language: English

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LOVE OF BROTHERS

BY

KATHARINE TYNAN

Author of "The Middle Years," "The Years of the Shadows," "The West
Wind," "Miss Gascoigne," etc., etc.

LONDON

CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD.

1919

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I O'GARAS OF CASTLE TALBOT
II PATSY REMEMBERS
III A TEA PARTY
IV FROM THE PAST
V THE HAVEN
VI STELLA
VII BRADY'S BULL
VIII SIR SHAWN SEES A GHOST
IX THE LETTER
X MRS. WADE
XI THE ONLY PRETTY RING-TIME
XII MOTHER-LOVE
XIII THE OLD LOVE
XIV STELLA GOES VISITING
XV THE SHADOW
XVI THE DEAD HAND
XVII MISS BRENNAN
XVIII THE DAUGHTER
XIX ANGER CRUEL AS DEATH
XX SIR SHAWN HAS A VISITOR
XXI STELLA IS SICK
XXII A SUDDEN BLOW
XXIII THE HOME-COMING
XXIV THE SICK WATCHERS
XXV IN WHICH TERRY FINDS A DEAD MAN
XXVI MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
XXVII THE STORY IS TOLD
XXVIII THE VIGIL
XXIX THE LAKH OF RUPEES

INTRODUCTORY

It was a night of bright moonlight that made for pitchy shadows under
wall or tree.

Patsy Kenny was looking for the goat, she having broken her tether. He
had been driven forth by his fierce old grandfather with threats of the
most awful nature if he should return without the goat.

The tears were not yet dry on Patsy's small face. He had kneaded them
in with his knuckles, but the smears caused by the process were not
visible in the moonlight, even if there had been any one to see them.
It was not only the hardship of being driven out when the meal of hot
potatoes was on the table, to search for that "ould divil" of a goat,
and his sense of the injustice which had put the blame of the goat's
straying on to his narrow shoulders. The old, in Patsy's knowledge of
them, were crabbed and unjust. That was something for the young to
take in the day's w