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I dundthered at his doore till he opened it, thin I towld him I'd seen th' Banshee! "'That bates Bannagher! says he. "'It bates th' divil, says I. 'But whose fur above th' night is what I'd like t' know. "'Oul Misther Chaine, says he, 'as sure as gun's iron!" The narrative stopped abruptly, stopped at McShane's door. "Did oul Misther Chaine die that night?" Anna asked.
After examining every nook and cranny they could think of, they came to Mrs McShane's room "O! go in go in and look, Mr O'Toole; it's a very likely thing to insinuate that I should have a tithe proctor in my bed. Search, pray," and Mrs McShane led the way into her own room. Every part had been examined, except the small sleeping room of Kathleen; and the party paused before the door.
He told her that McShane was the major of his regiment when he was a private; that he would inevitably recognise him; and that, if nothing else occurred from McShane's knowledge of his former name, at all events, the general supposition of his having been an officer in the army would be contradicted, and it would lower him in the estimation of the county gentlemen.
Purty soon wid a yell she lept into the graveyard, thin she lept on th' wall, thin I heerd her on th' road, keenin'; an' iverywhere she wint wor long bars of light like sunbames streamin' throo th' holes in a barn. Th' keenin' become waker an' waker till it died down like the cheep ov a willy-wag-tail far off be the ind ov th' road. "I got up an' ran like a red shank t' McShane's house.
We followed the high road to the post town to which I had been conveyed, and I determined to pull up at Mrs McShane's, for I was so exhausted that I could go no further. This was a measure which required precaution; and as there was moonlight, I turned off the road before I entered the town, or village, as it ought to have been called, so that we dismounted at the back of Mrs McShane's house.
The party, headed by Jerry O'Toole, who had taken the light out of Mrs McShane's hand, now ascended the ladder to the upper storey, and as I lay by Kathleen, I felt that she trembled with fear.
The advice was too good not to be followed; and I was so exhausted, that I was glad that prudence was on the side of repose. I lay down on Mrs McShane's bed, while Timothy watched over me. I had a short slumber, and then was awakened by the good landlady, who told me that it was time for us to quit.
"Eat your dinner, drink a bottle of champagne, and then I'll come and talk it over with you, that's all you can do at present. Give me the note, and I'll send Dimitri off with it at once, and order up your dinner." McShane's advice not being very bad, it was followed. O'Donahue had finished his dinner, and was sitting by the fire with McShane, when there was a knock at the door.
"Depend upon it, major," said the princess, for she was now aware of McShane's rank, "I will treat him like a son." "Still he will be a servant, my lady, and that's not the position although, begging your pardon, an emperor might be proud to be your servant; yet that's not the position for little Joey."
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