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Asgill returned, speaking on the spur of the moment, and wondering at himself the moment he had made the statement. "That's what I'm meaning! Do you see? And if you are for repeating the word, more by token, it'll be all the breakfast you'll have, for I'll cram it down your ugly throat!" Payton stared dumbfounded, divided between rage and astonishment.
"Your sister," Asgill repeated with gusto. "I'd like fine to see you asking her to help you turn Protestant! Faith, and, for a mere word of that same, I'll warrant she'd treat you as the old gentleman treated you!" "Anyway, I'll not trust you," James replied, with venom. "Sooner than that I'll have ay, that will do finely I'll have Constantine Hussey of Duppa.
This decided the matter; and the American officer in command turned to the leader of the dragoons and said to him, "This gentleman, sir, is your prisoner." Now this most tragical meeting broke up, and we are told that every man in that room, except Captain Asgill himself, was in tears.
I wouldn't dare to look in her face if she bade me not! She's as safe with me as if she were an angel in heaven! And you say you; but you don't understand!" "Faith and I don't," The McMurrough answered, his tone much lowered. "That's true for you!" When it came to a collision of wills the other was his master. "No," Asgill repeated. "But don't you talk like that again, or harm will come of it.
Had he foreseen the meeting he would certainly have remained in Tralee, and left the job to a subaltern. "Hang it!" he exclaimed, vexed by the recollection, "a fine mess you led me into there, Asgill!" "I did not know him then," Asgill replied lightly. "And, pho! Take my word for it, he's no man to bear malice!" "Malice, begad!" Payton answered, ill-humouredly; "I think it's I "
"Well, and wasn't it that same I'm saying?" The McMurrough retorted. "If it weren't for that, and the bargain we've struck, d'you think that I'd be letting my sister and a McMurrough look at the likes of you? No, not in as many Midsummer Days as are between this and world without end!" The look Asgill shot at him would have made a wiser man tremble.
He laid his damp cloak on a bench, hung up his hat and whip, and nodded to Ulick. "The Lord save us! is it you've brought her back?" the big man exclaimed. The Colonel nodded. "I thought" he looked towards the open door "it would please her to find the creature so!" The McMurrough stood speechless with mortification. It was Asgill who stepped forward and spoke.
Asgill," he continued; "if it is to that you've been working, I'd as soon him as you! Ay, by G d, I would! I'd sooner turn myself!" "I can believe that." "A hundred times sooner!" James repeated. "And what for not? What's to prevent me? Eh? What's to prevent me?" "Your sister," Asgill answered. James's face, which had flamed with passion, lost its colour.
It was plain that he did not mean to be drawn from the position he had taken up. "Only I think that you have overlooked this," Asgill continued smoothly. "It is one thing to own a house and another to kick the logs on the hearth; one thing to have the deeds and another in the west to pass the punch-bowl!
His very aspect sobered Uncle Ulick's mind. The latter saw that only a blacker and more hopeless night could follow the day of vengeance of which he dreamt; and he sat this evening while Asgill talked on the hill with The McMurrough he sat this evening by the light of the peat-fire, and was sore troubled. Was it, or was it not, too late?
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