Then he wrote another letter and put a stamp on it. He walked out of the big house with the letter in one hand and his old Irish carpet bag in the other.
He walked along the bright city streets until he came to a mail box. He kissed the letter and then dropped it into the box.
Dawn O'Day read the letter a few weeks later in Ireland.
This is what it said:
"My Dawn O'Day—
"At last I am leaving the fairy folk. My fingers have grown too clumsy and my arms too big for the dainty likes of the Good People. Those elves, the children of this bright world, do not be wanting Shaun O'Day any more.
"And so, little Eileen, I am coming back to you and Ireland. And in my pocket is silver and gold to buy us a wedding and a cottage.
"But the cottage will not be in that New Island. 'Twill be in the old Emerald Isle.
Your Shaun."
Shaun sold everything he had but an old suit of clothes. He bought a ticket on a boat going to England and sailed away from New York.