She helped out around the home with housework, kept in touch with her 
     
     friends and continued to see Bill who was back in Emerald and working a 
     
     summer job at a service station in Summerside. 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
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     IQt/Jleenis‘ brother Lennie working on the Keefe filrm (circa 1948) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathleen returned for her sophomore year at Saint Dunstans and resumed 
     
     the routine that characterized her freshman year. She and Alice now had 
     
     their own room in residence, and she tackled her second year studies 
     
    

    
     with added confidence. As the summer days turned into autumn, tragedy 
     
     struck the Keefe family once again. One evening, Kathleen was studying 
     
     in her room when a call came for her from Sister Mary Angela, who 
     
     worked at the Charlottetown Hospital. Sister Mary Angela called with the 
     
     news that their father John had suffered a heart attack, and they needed 
     
     to get to Kinkora right away. They hired a taxi and headed to Kinkora in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the dark fall night. By the time they reached home, John had died. 
     
    
   
   
    
     With the shock of her father’s death, Kathleen does not remember much 
     
     of what took place over the neXt few days. The people who dropped by 
     
     with their condolences and gifts of food, the wake, the funeral mass and 
     
     the burial all became blurred in the mourning of her father’s death. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When she finally returned to Saint Dunstans, a letter was waiting for her. 
     
     It was from her father, who had written it just days before he died. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     84 KATHLEEN MURPHY, MAITRIARC