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Joe Reynolds, and you living too on Mr. Macdermot's property. You and your brother never ran whiskey at Drumleesh, I suppose. Why should a tenant of the Macdermots escape any more than one of Counsellor Webb's?"
"Joe mostly leads those boys up at Drumleesh, an' hard to lead they are; I'm thinking Captain Ussher, with all his revenue of peelers an' his guns, may meet his match there yit. They'll hole him, av he goes on much farthur, as shure as my name's Pat." "They'll get the worst of that, Brady not that I care a thrawneen for him and his company.
"No, yer honour, it isn't that he'll be saying, but he'll be saying Captain Ussher's name wasn't mentioned, or may be that the boys were merely taking their drink, innocent like; that's what I be afeared and that's what Corney 'll say; you'll see av he don't; he's the biggest liar in Drumleesh." "Oh, they'd soon knock all that out of him; besides, isn't he one of these potheen boys?"
Now I heard and I know you won't contradict me unless it's untrue that the party consisted of you, and Brady, and Joe Reynolds, and Byrne, and Corney Dolan, and one or two others from Drumleesh, your own or your father's tenants, and the very lowest of them all of them infamous characters men never, or seldom, seen at mass makers of potheen fellows who are known to be meeting nightly at that house of Mrs.
"Oh shure, yer riverence, an' he'll do that too; won't there be all the Ballycloran tenants, and the boys and girls from Drumleesh?" "Oh, yes, Drumleesh; Drumleesh is as bad as Mohill; I'm thinking it's those fellows in Drumleesh that make Mohill what it is; but I suppose Pat Brady would tell me he has a right to choose his own company." "Oh, Pat would not tell your riverence the like of that."
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.
It had come to the knowledge of Denis McGovery that Brady had asked to the wedding a lot of men from Drumleesh, and some also from Mohill characters with whom Denis was not apt to consort himself, and whom he looked on as paupers and rapparees.
"But what do you think they'd do to the Captain to-night, Denis?" "Faix then, yer riverence, I don't know what they'd be doing, murther him, maybe." "God forbid! But, Denis, those men from Drumleesh could hardly know Captain Ussher was going to be at the wedding to-night." "Oh! yer riverence, they'd know it well enough from Pat Brady."
As these ideas crossed his mind he hastened along the lane leading to Drumleesh, sometimes running and sometimes walking, till the perspiration stood upon his brow. If it was murder that he had done if the world should consider it as murder then he would most probably soon be in the same condition as that criminal whose trial had so vividly occurred to his recollection a few days ago.
Smith and Byrne, the former of whom in spite of his protestations to the contrary was the inhabitant of the cabin, had given the matter up as lost; but as the other, Tim Reynolds, did in fact reside at Drumleesh, he thought he might still show some cause why he should not be arrested for visiting his friend Joe Smith.
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