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FILION AND FIONA--ALSO PATSY KERNAGHAN.
Patsy Kernaghan was in his element in the garden with which Norah Doyle had decorated the brown bosom of the prairie.

It had verdant shrubs, green turf, thick fringes of flowers, and one solitary elmtree in the centre whose branches spread like a cedar of Lebanon.

In the moonlight Patsy had the telling of a wonderful story to such an audience as he had never had before in his life, and he had had them from Bundoran to Limerick, from Limerick to the foothills of the Rockies.
The seance of love and legend had been Patsy's own idea.

At the supper-table spread by Norah Doyle, in spite of the protests of her visitors--the Young Doctor, Louise and Patsy--Nolan Doyle, who had a fine gift for playful talk, had tried to keep the situation free from melodrama.