Finntan Mac Cartan, bringing with him an infant for baptism came to Bishop Carthach.

Finntan Mac Cartan, bringing with him an infant for baptism came to Bishop Carthach.

But what was the use in trying, to resent Marna Cartan, the young Irish girl who meant to make a great singer of herself, and who evidently looked upon the world as a place of rare and radiant entertainment?

Here they seemed tacitly to say, "Why not?" Mrs. Dennison seated Kate between Dr. von Shierbrand and Marna Cartan.

"This isn't your game just now, Miss Cartan," Kate said in her downright manner.

It was Marna Cartan.

At least, Great-Grandfather Cartan, who came over to Wisconsin with a company of immigrants, could tell you things about our ancestors that would make you feel as if we came up out of the Irish hills.

She threw even the blithe Marna Cartan temporarily into the shade; and Dr. von Shierbrand, who was accustomed to talking with Kate upon such matters as the national trait of incompetence, or the reprehensible modern tendency of coddling the unfit, turned his attention to Miss Morrison and to lighter subjects.

Mrs. Barsaloux and Marna Cartan thought so, at any rate.

She went out only to University affairs with Honora or Kate, or to the city with Marna Cartan.

"They'll be having a glorious time at Miss Cartan's supper," mused Mrs. Dennison.

The next night, Kate Barrington, making her way swiftly down the Midway in a misty gloom, saw the little figure of Marna Cartan fluttering before her.

If a nightingale sings, then Miss Cartan does.

Marna Cartan had gone walking; and she never came back.

And it might have been Marna Cartan instead of Geraldine Farrar of whom they spoke!