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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Of course," I said, "if it's a matter of politics, everything must give way to politics. But I'm very sorry to lose you, Crossan. My business affairs " "You'll have no business affairs left, my lord, if the Home Rule Bill passes." "But you're going to stop it," I said. "We are," said Crossan. He certainly believed that he was. At the present moment he believes that he did stop it.
The two come into very frequent contact and quite as frequent conflict. Crossan manages the co-operative store which I started, and Godfrey regards him as one of my servants. Crossan, who has a fine instinct for business, also manages the commercial side of our local mackerel fishing. Godfrey thinks he would manage this better than Crossan does.
"Under those circumstances," I said, "you did not, I suppose, leave my cards." Godfrey has a standing feud with Crossan, who is not a gentleman and does not pretend to be. Godfrey, judged by any rational standard, is even less of a gentleman; but as the future Lord Kilmore he belongs to the ranks of an aristocracy and therefore has a contempt for Crossan.
"Coaling," I said; "I don't see why I should dismiss Crossan because Conroy's yacht came in here for coal." "She wasn't coaling," said Godfrey. I knew that, of course; so I said nothing, but left Godfrey to develope his grievance whatever it was. "Ever since that night," said Godfrey, "there has been something or other going on in the yard behind the stores.
"I would," said Bob, "if I thought she wouldn't be angry with me." "She's nervous," I said, "and excited; but she didn't seem angry." Just outside the town I met Crossan and, very much to my surprise, McNeice walking with him. Crossan handed me a letter. I put it into my pocket and greeted McNeice. "I did not know you were here," I said. "When did you come?" "Last night," said McNeice.
"She gave an address to the working-women of Belfast the week before last, one of the most moving " "All frills," said McNeice, "silk frills. Your friend Crossan is acting as one of our agents, distributing the paper for us. That'll give you an idea of the lines we're going on." Crossan, I admit, is the last man I should suspect of being interested in frills.
"I don't like the way he's going on." "You never did. There's nothing fresh about that. You've complained about him regularly every week for five years." This was an exaggeration. I am sometimes away from home for more than a week at a time and Godfrey does not always complain about Crossan in his letters.
"Crossan brought me on his motor." "Were you in time for the scrimmage?" "You'd maybe better read the letter I've given you, my lord," said Crossan. "If I'd been there," said McNeice, "your nephew would probably be dead now. In my opinion he ought to be." "The letter I've just given your lordship," said Crossan, "is an important one." "I'm sure it is," I said. "But I haven't time to read it now."
"Oh, I didn't mean that," said Marion. "In fact Rose told me that her young man gave her the brooch. He's a very nice, steady young fellow with a freckly face and he drives one of the carts for Crossan." He must, I suspect, be the same young man who accused Godfrey of being a spy. If so he is evidently a judge of character, and his selection of Rose as a sweet-heart is a high compliment to her.
"I shall feel greatly obliged to you," I said. "The fact is that a nephew of mine is going to be hanged as a spy. You said you were going to hang him, didn't you, Crossan?" "I think it likely, my lord," said Crossan. "Of course," I said, "he richly deserves it; and so far as my own personal feelings go I should be very glad if he were hanged.
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