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A good way in the distance behind him might be discovered another figure dogging his footsteps, that figure being no other than the honest figure of Barney Casey. On went Woodward unsuspicious that he was watched, until he reached the indescribable cabin of Sol Donnel, the old herbalist.
Mave looked around her rather wildly, and no sooner had her eyes rested on Donnel Dhu than she shrieked aloud, and turning her face away from him, with something akin to fear and horror, she flung herself into her mother's arms, exclaiming, as she hid her face in her bosom: "Oh save me from that man; don't let! him near me; don't let him touch me. I can't tell why, but I'm deadly afraid of him.
We must only go without her, if she's not able to come the day afther to-morrow. Where are the boys for the Grange?" "Undher shelter of the Grey Stone, waitin' to start." "Well, then, as it it," said Donnel, "they know their business, at any rate. The Grange folk don't expect them this week to come, you think?"
Donnel Dhu had returned from the assizes, and was sitting, as usual, poring over the fire, when he asked the old woman who nursed Sarahif there had been any persons inquiring for him since nightfall. "Three or four," she replied; "but I said you hadn't come home yet; an' divil a one o' them but was all on the same tune, an' bid me to tell you that it was a safe night."
The robbery was no more successful than the abduction, for Roddy Duncan withdrew from it, and Donnel M'Gowan learnt that the house to be plundered was well guarded. IV. An Amazing Witness
The vague, but strongly expressed warnings which she had previously heard from Nelly, and the earnest admonitions which that person had given her to beware of evil designs on the part of Donnel Dhu and his daughter, now rushed upon her mind; and she stood looking upon the desolate girl with feelings that it is difficult to describe.
"Why," said he, "I dreamed that I was lookin' for a hammer at your house, an' I thought that you hadn't one to give me; but your daughter Mave came to me, and said, 'here's a hammer for you, Donnel, an' take care of it, for it belongs to Condy Dalton. I thought I took it, an' the first thing I found myself doin' was drivin' a nail in what appeared to be my own coffin.
"Go to the windy, Donnel," said Jemmy, with an authoritative air; "go to your ground; but before you do let me know what you want." "I'll do no such thing," replied the Prophet; "unless to say, that it's a matter of life an' death." "Go out," repeated Jemmy, with brief and determined authority, "an wait till it's his honor's convanience, his full convanience, to see you.
"Well, when I marry, as I will soon, I'll call upon you; I dare say my wife will get jealous, for I love the ladies, if that's a fault." Another grin was his first reply to this, after which he said: "Well, sir, if she does, come to me." "Where in Rathfillan do you live?" "O, anybody will tell you; inquire for ould Sol Donnel, the yarrib man, and you'll soon find me out."
"Well, well," said Donnel Dhu, in a very Christian-like spirit, "I fear you're right, Jerry; but still let us hope for the best." And as he spoke, they entered the house. Jerry Sullivan's house and place had about them all the marks and tokens of gradual decline.
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