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"With any other doctor she'd have been dead long since: leave her to herself a little, and the farm's your own; and I'm sure there'll 've been nothing at all like murder between us." "By Heavens, he does!" and Colligan rose quickly from his seat "he means to have her murdered, and thinks to make me do the deed!
Lord Ballindine walked to the window, and Martin Kelly and Doctor Colligan sat in distant parts of the room, with long faces, silent and solemn, breathing heavily. How long those five minutes appeared to them, and how short to Barry!
"But is Miss Lynch so very ill, Martin?" "'Deed, and she is, Mr Frank; very bad intirely. Doctor Colligan was with her three times yestherday." "And does Barry take any notice of her now she's ill?" "Why, not yet he didn't; but then, we kept it from him as much as we could, till it got dangerous like. Mother manes to send Colligan to him to-day, av' he thinks she's not betther."
"But the doctor hasn't tendered me any information," said Frank, stopping his horse, so that Armstrong was able to get close up to his elbow. "But I presume it is his intention to do so?" said the parson. "I should choose to have another magistrate present then," said Frank. "Really, Doctor Colligan, I think the best thing you can do is to come before myself and the stipendiary magistrate at Tuam.
And then ask him why the doctor knocked him down? you'll have him on the hip so." "There's something in that," said Frank; "but the question is, what is Doctor Colligan to do? He says he can't swear any information on which a magistrate could commit him." "Unless he does, my lord," said Armstrong, "I don't think you should listen to him at all; at least, not as a magistrate."
Then Lord Ballindine insisted that they should tell young Kelly what they were about, before they went to Barry's house, as it would be necessary to consult him as to the disposition he would wish to have made of the property. Armstrong was strongly against this measure, but it was, at last, decided on; and then they had to induce Colligan to go with them.
He wanted me to give him a farm, and said cursed queer things about my sister. I hardly know what he said; but I know I had to turn him out of the house, and there was a scrimmage between us." "I see you're so far prepared, Mr Lynch: now, I'll tell you my version of the story. Martin Kelly, just see that the door is shut. You endeavoured to bribe Doctor Colligan to murder your own sister."
"But murder, Armstrong! downright murder; of the worst kind; studied premeditated. He must have been thinking of it, and planning it, for days. A man may be worthless, and yet not such a wretch as that would make him. Can you really think he meant Colligan to murder his sister?" "I can, and do think so," said the parson.
Doctor Colligan himself was not at all acquainted with Lord Ballindine: he attended none of the family, who extensively patronised his rival, and he had never been inside Kelly's Court house.
The poor girl knew how ill she was, and expected her death; and when the widow told her that Doctor Colligan was going to call on her brother, she said that she hoped she should see Barry once more before all was over. "Mother," said Martin, as soon as the Doctor's back was turned, "you'll get yourself in a scrape av you go on saying such things as that about folk before strangers."
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