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Outside my own folk, I found the people stiffer and less affable than formerly; but at no time had I any difficulty in obtaining or keeping domestic servants, though my wife got the majority from the neighbourhood of Edenburn.
She having confessed the fact one I hope in no way detrimental, though I say so, perhaps, who should not he mentioned that he had been to a most cheery dance at Edenburn, which had made a great impression on his mind, because for seven miles along the road by which he and his friends drove there were pickets of constabulary, and the hall table was piled so full with the revolvers brought by the guests, that all the hats and coats had to be taken to the smoking-room.
The Cork Constitutional throws further light in a somewhat badly expressed article: 'The most extraordinary circumstance connected with the outrage is the secrecy and stealth which must have been resorted to in order to avoid detection. It was well known in the neighbourhood that not alone were three policemen constantly at Edenburn for Mr.
"They were the only neighbours we had to talk to, and the brutes would not leave us them as a convenience." The Cork correspondent of the Times wrote: 'Among the general body of the people of Kerry, the news of the attempt to blow up Mr. Hussey's house at Edenburn caused comparatively little excitement. In the County Club at Tralee, the announcement was received with something like a panic.
The house was repaired and I received compensation in due course from the County, but my family did not think after what had occurred that Edenburn was a desirable place of residence. So I henceforth resided much in London, and therefore spent a great deal less money in Kerry.
Eventually the passages to America of all the triumvirate were paid, and they thought it discreet to quit the country, cursing their own stingy executive even more deeply than they blasphemed against the Law and execrated me. A man from the neighbourhood subsequently wrote to me from London that he could tell me who perpetrated the Edenburn outrage.
I brought my family back to Kerry in the following summer, and after I had rebuilt Edenburn I lived there until I gave it to my elder son, who has it to this day and resides there in peace. Matters were very different to that state of idyllic simplicity in the critical times on which I am still dwelling.
I began with an hour in my Cork office, went by train to Killarney, a journey of three and a half hours, where I spent three hours in my office, and then by train on to Tralee, a further one and a quarter hours, where I had an hour and a half in my office in that town, and then drove out to Edenburn, seven miles, to sleep.
'And with that he went off to bed again, with the remark about having a quiet night which he has mentioned earlier in this chapter. 'The only other thing which I now recall is, that a detachment of the Buffs in the neighbourhood had found us the only people to entertain them. 'On being told that Edenburn had been blown up, one of them said:
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