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And the shepherd boy and the damsel there and then founded a new town beside the lake, and all who are of the old families of Baile Loch Riabhach, like myself, are their descendants. That, concluded Eamonn, is the story of the Gray Lake. Martin Cosgrave walked up steadily to his holding after Ellen Miscal had read to him the American letter. He had spoken no word to the woman.
The town of the Seven Sisters was no more. "Look," cried the shepherd boy, "at Loch Riabhach!" And drawing back he cast out into the far water the secret key. There it still lies under a rock, somewhere in the lake over which our boat is now drifting.
"The first man who ever saw it beheld it in the gray light of dawn, and so he called it Baile Loch Riabhach, the Town of the Gray Lough." "When might that be?" asked the lady sceptic drily. "The morning after the town was drowned," said Eamonn. "What town?" "The town we are now rowing over." "Good heavens! Is there a town beneath us?" "Seadh", said Eamonn.
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