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"What I propose is that we spend £400 on a pier and use the other hundred to pay for the statue and the rest of the things we have to get." "Bedamn," said Doyle, "but that's great. That's the best ever I heard." Major Kent rose to his feet. He was very red in the face, and there was a look of rigid determination in his eyes.
"Bedamn," he said, "but if I'd known that was to be the way it was to be I might as well have put him ashore there myself and not have wetted him." On the beach at Inishbawn when the boat grounded, were Lady Isabel, Mrs.
"She'll not go there," said Kinsella, "for if she does I'll flay the skin of Jimmy's back with the handle of a hay-rake, and well he knows it." "If I was easy in my mind about the strange gentleman that's up at the big house " "It's a curious thing, so it is, him sending for the sergeant the minute he came." "Bedamn," said Peter Walsh, "but it is."
Everybody began to move towards the motorcar. A loud cheer burst from the people nearest to it. "It's him sure enough," said Father McCormack. "It's the Lord-Lieutenant," said Doyle excitedly. "Bedamn, but this is great! We'll be all right now." "It can't possibly be the Lord-Lieutenant," said Dr. O'Grady. "He'd never change his mind twice in the same morning."
At the same moment the Tortoise grounded on the gravel with a sharp grinding sound. Frank looked about him amazed. Jimmy Kinsella, standing on the shore with his hands in his pockets, spoke slowly. "Bedamn," he said, "but I never seen the like.
"Bedamn then," said Sweeny, "there's no boat for them." "I was thinking that myself." "I wouldn't wonder," said Sweeney, "but something might stop Joseph Antony Kinsella from coming in today after all, thought he's due with another load of gravel." "He mightn't come," said Patsy the smith. "There's many a thing could happen to prevent him." "What time were they thinking of starting?" said Sweeny.
"If them fellows over in England," he said, "weren't terrible frightened of the Sinn Feiners, would they be offering us the likes of that to keep us quiet? Bedamn, but they would not. Nobody ever got a penny out of an Englishman yet, without he'd frightened him first. And it's the Sinn Feiners done that. There's the why and the wherefore of it to you. Twenty-five shillings a week!
"Sure he can't." "And what's to hinder him?" "He was drunk an hour ago," said Peter Walsh, "and he'll be drunker now." "Bedamn then, but you'd better take him down and dip him in the tide, for I'll not have that young fellow with the sore leg on Inishbawn. If it was only herself I wouldn't care." "I'd be afeard to do it," said Peter Walsh. "Afeard of what?" "Afeard of Patsy the smith.
A man from the crowd, a well-dressed man, had slipped past Constable Moriarty and reached the statue. He had raised the bottom of the sheet which covered it and was peering at the inscription on the pedestal. "Doyle," said Dr. O'Grady, "that's the American again. That's Billing." "Bedamn!" said Doyle excitedly. "You're right. It's him sure enough." "Go and seize him. Take him into the hotel.
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