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"To Aughacashel." "Where's Aughacashel?" "It's a mountain behind Drumshambo." "And did he tell you why he was going to Aughacashel?" "That he mightn't be tuk, I s'pose." "I don't want your supposition. Did the prisoner tell you why he was going to Aughacashel?" "There war some of the tinants there, I b'lieve, and he thought he'd be safe may be."
"There you're wrong. I'm thinking now, where is the best place for you: and by G d as long as I can stick to you, I will; both becase you were always a kind masther to the poor, an' becase the man you killed war him I hated worse than all the world besides; but it's no asy thing to say where you'd be safest. D'you know Aughacashel, Mr. Thady?"
Av you like to go out of this during the day, don't go further than the kiln; an' av you lie there, you could easily see them miles afore they war nigh you, even av anything should put it into their heads to think of coming afther you to Aughacashel."
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."
This was the first time that Thady had heard that a verdict of murder had been found against him before the Coroner, and though it was only what he expected, nevertheless the certainty, now that it reached him, almost made him change his mind and return to Aughacashel.
On the western side of Aughacashel, immediately over Loch Allen, and about half way between the lowlands and the summit, a kind of rude limekiln had been made, apparently for the purpose of burning lime for the neighbouring land; but the very poor state of the rocky ground about, which gave signs of but little industry, afforded evidence that the limekiln had not added much to the agricultural wealth of the country.
But come on, lads, we mustn't be standing here; we must be in Aughacashel before sunrise, or else they'll be stopping us as we pass through the counthry." And again they went through the clear bright moonlight. They passed Loch Sheen, and soon afterwards another little lake, lying also to the left of the road, and then they found themselves in the small village of Cashcarrigan.
Mulready's, and had for a long time seen nothing of Joe Reynolds and his set, who spent most of their time in Aughacashel, or at any rate away from Drumleesh. Joe Reynolds had been altogether unable to account for Thady's sudden disappearance from Aughacashel.
Well, yer honours, at the bottom of the avenue, at the gate like, though for the matter of that, there ain't no gate there, we discovered the Brown Hall gig, and Mr. Fred's crop-tailed bay pony horse standing in the middle of the road and the masther bid me take the body away to the police at Carrick, saying he would be off at oncet to the mountains in Aughacashel.
His brother Abraham was a cripple, having no use in either of his legs; but he had an appearance of intelligence and wit in his face, which his brother in no degree shared, and he was very powerful with his arms. It was he who chiefly made the spirits, while Dan and the others procured the barley brought it up to Aughacashel, malted it, and afterwards disposed of the whiskey.
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