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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Sarah By: Mary Lavin


Oliver Kedrigan's wife Kathleen was thinking about getting Sarah Murray to look over her house while she went away to Dublin. The other women in the district felt they should warn her about Sarah's actions. They told her about the way that Sarah looked at their husbands and how they wouldn't trust her if she was in their homes. Kathleen trusted her husband so she hired Sarah to look after the house and left for Dublin. Just after Kathleen left, Sarah met Oliver Kedrigan as he came up to the house with his cart. He spoke few words and as he was leaving she keep her eyes on him in a peculiar way.

When Kathleen got home from her trip, the house was spotless. She paid Sarah and then Sarah went back home. Once Sarah got home, her brothers and her three children were happy to have her back. After a while something changed and the brothers could tell. Sarah was pregnant and the brothers thought that it was Oliver Kedrigan. At the same time, Kathleen was also expecting a baby. One evening, they received a letter in the mail saying Oliver was the father of the child Sarah Murray was carrying. Oliver denied it but Kathleen had her suspicions.

The next evening, Sarah was sitting near the fire. Her brothers confronted her and asked her if the letter was true. Sarah didn't give them a straight answer so one of the brothers decided to take action. He took all of her belongings and threw them into the street. He then kicked Sarah out of the house. The next day, Oliver and Kathleen Keridgan heard of the news. Sarah was found dead in a ditch with her baby beside her. Kathleen was happy to here of this but Oliver's reaction was shocking because he seemed upset and worried.

Do you think the child Sarah Murray was carrying was Oliver's?