21/24 I will arrange with some man of business to pay him a stipend as long as he never troubles our friend here. Though all the world should know it, will it not be better so ?" Great and terrible is the power of money. When this easy way out of their immediate difficulties had been made by the rich man, even Mrs.O'Hara with all her spirit was subdued for the moment, and the reproaches of the priest were silenced for that hour. The young man had seemed to behave well, had stood up as the friend of the suffering women, and had been at any rate ready with his money. "And now," he said, "where is Kate ?" Then Mrs.O'Hara took him by the hand and led him into the bedroom in which the poor girl had buried herself from her father's embrace. |