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But mind, divil a penny of rint 'll ever go to Ballycloran agin from Drumleesh; for the matter's up now; you're either our frind or our inimy. But if, Mr.
"I and Joe Smith live down away jist on the road to Cash, about half a mile out of this; and Tim Reynolds, he lives away at Drumleesh, on Mr. Macdermot's land; and my name's Paddy Byrne." "Oh, oh; so one of you is father of the lad who brought the donkey, and the other the owner of it; and you neither of you knew what was in the kishes."
"Shure didn't you hear he put three more of the boys into gaol Tuesday evening, and one of them off Drumleesh?" "Heard it! of course I heard it; and more than I'll be hearing it too. Oh, Father Cullen, wherever that Ussher came from, I wish they'd kept him there." Thady's earnestness in this surprised the young priest. "Why, I thought you and he were so thick; but I'm glad it's not so much so.
Ussher thanked Denis for his communication, but at the same time begged him not to disquiet himself told him that there was no danger in life; and declared that he felt so confident of the good feeling of the men through the country towards him, particularly those at Drumleesh and Mohill, that he should always feel perfectly safe in their company in fact, that he looked on their presence as a protection.
Wid that, says he, 'Pat, says he, 'where's the stills mostly at work now? 'Faith, says I, 'I don't exactly be knowing; for, yer honour, I niver turned a penny that way myself 'but, says I, 'sich a one'll tell you, and I mintioned one of the tinants; 'and where's he? said the masther; 'why I heard tell, says I, 'that he's in Aughacashel, but av you'll go down to Drumleesh, you'll find out, and wid that he went down the road to Drumleesh, and I druv the body off to Carrick."
He had been out but little since the day on which he had been so savagely treated at Drumleesh indeed he had not been able to go out till quite lately; and he now most thoroughly wished that he was bad enough to obtain a medical certificate, which would prevent the necessity of his attending in court.
"He wor not; that's to say, he wor not at the fair, but I seen him in the evening, with the other boys from Drumleesh, at Mrs. Mulready's." "Them boys has always the money when they want a drop of whiskey. By dad, if they go to Mulready's with the money in their pockets on a Tuesday, where's the wonder they come here with them empty on a Friday? Fetch me a coal for the pipe, Pat."
There were only two cabins immediately close to it; one of which was occupied by a very old man and his daughter, but in which Corney Dolan and Reynolds resided, when they were away from Drumleesh; and the other belonged to another partner in the business, who considered himself the owner of the limekiln, and the head of the party concerned in it.
"Well, by dad, it comes so natural to me, Joe, to call him by his own name, that one can't help it; but it war only four o'clock when we left this, this blessed afthernoon that is, yesterday afthernoon an' since that we wor down at Mulready's, an' then at Drumleesh, an' now we're here agin; why how many miles is that?"
"I'm afeard, Father John, them born divils from Drumleesh and Mohill, as Pat brought here to-night, are maning more than good to Captain Ussher." "And what makes you think that, Denis?"
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