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"Sir gintleman miss, over the way there for throth, for all so close as you're veiled, you haven't a married look but as I was sayin', we fell in love wid one another by mistake for there was an ould matchmaker, by name Biddlety Girtha, a daughter of ould Jemmy Trailcudgel's God be good to him father of the present strugglin' poor man of that name and as I had hard of a celebrated beauty that lived about twelve or fifteen miles down the country that I wished to coort and she, on the other hand, having hard of a very fine, handsome young fellow in my own neighborhood what does the ould thief do but brings us together, in the fair of Baltihorum, and palms her off on me as the celebrated beauty, and palms myself on her as the fine, handsome young fellow from the parish of Ballytrain, and, as I said, so we fell in love wid one another by mistake, and didn't discover the imposthure that the ould vagabond had put on us until afther the marriage.
Anxious, nervous, and gloomy, he ordered his carriage, and in due time arrived in Dublin. Thither the stranger had preceded him. The latter, finding that Ballytrain could no longer be the scene of his operations, also sought the metropolis. Fenton had disappeared Lucy was no longer there. His friend Birney was also in town, and as in town his business now lay, to town therefore he went.
Mainwaring's interview with the baronet, Gibson entered the library, and handed him a letter on which was stamped the Ballytrain postmark. On looking at it, he paused for a moment: "Who the d can this come from?" he said. "I am not aware of having any particular correspondence at present, in or about Ballytrain. Here, however, is a seal; let me see what it is.
"Nonsense," said the other; "how could I know a man whom I never saw before? No; it is merely concerning the local history of Ballytrain and its inhabitants that I am speaking." There was a slight degree of dry irony, however, on his face, as he spoke.
"Neither shall I," replied "the anonymous" "However, to come to other matters, pray what kind of a town is this of Ballytrain?" "It is by no means a bad town," replied Fenton, "as towns and times go. It has a market-house, a gaol, a church, as you have seen a Roman Catholic chapel, and a place of worship for the Presbyterian and Methodist.
"Gibson," said he, "show him into a room say I will see him presently, in about ten minutes or less; deliver this message, and return to me." In a few moments Gibson again made his appearance. "Gibson," continued his master, "where is Gillespie? Send him to me." "Gillespie's gone into Ballytrain, sir, to get one of the horses fired." "Gibson, you are a good and faithful servant.
"You did, sir; this note was in his possession; and I fear you have murdered him I besides. You must come with me," and as he spoke, our friend, Trailcudgel, saw two pistols, one in each hand, levelled at him. "Get on before me, sir, to the town of Ballytrain, or, resist at your peril." Almost at the same moment the two pistols, taken from Sir Thomas Gourlay, were levelled at the stranger.
He accordingly posted it at a rapid rate to Ballytrain, accompanied by Dandy and his dulcimer, who, except during the evenings among the servants in the hotel, had very little opportunity of creating a sensation, as he thought he would have done as an amateur musician in the metropolis.
"What mistake, my good man?" asked Darby. "Why, simply, that instead of a robber, you have been sharp enough to take up a most respectable Catholic clergyman from Ballytrain." "What," said Darby, "a Popish priest! Curse me, but that's as good, if not better, than the other thing.
Everything that could wear away life was attempted, and the instruments in that black villain's hands were well paid for their cruelty. At length, my lord, he escaped, and wandhered about till he settled down in the town of Ballytrain.
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