Mating Season

Mating SeasonFather Carrigan Knew Terry Dinneen as a string of a boy nearly six feet tall for all he was only seventeen, dark Irish with a snub nose, a length to his upper lip that gave him an impudent look, and such lashes to his blue eyes that the girls glanced sly and with hope when they passed him on the street. In truth, though, the lad was neither impudent nor paying attention to the girls, but serious and overly fond of reading books.It was the books that were causing the difficulty."...