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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Hardress, Earl of Glenfallen, I accuse you here in this court of justice of two crimes first, that you married a second wife, while the first was living, and again, that you prompted me to the murder, for attempting which I am to die secure him chain him bring him here."
At a pleasure garden on a hill near Limerick, Eily O'Connor, the beautiful daughter of Mihil O'Connor, the rope-maker, first met Hardress Cregan, a young gentleman fresh from college; and on the same night, as she and her father were returning homeward, they were attacked by a rabble of men and boys, and rescued by the stranger and his hunchbacked companion, Danny Mann.
On learning that they had departed, he swore to himself that if this his servant exceeded his views, he would tear his flesh from his bones, and gibbet him as a miscreant and a ruffian. The night grew wild and stormy; a thunderstorm broke over the hill. Hardress slumbered in his chair, crying out, "My glove, my glove! You used it against my meaning! I meant but banishment.
Among the officers were names of memorable interest Henry Cromwell, second son of the Protector, and future Lord Deputy; Monck, Blake, Jones, Ireton, Ludlow, Hardress Waller, Sankey, and others equally prominent in accomplishing the King's death, or in raising up the English commonwealth.
I felt my heart swell and my breath come thick as the awful moment which was to witness the death-struggle of one or other of us approached. Captain Oliver stood within a yard or two of the place where I sat, or rather lay; and folding his arms, he remained silent for a minute or two, as if arranging in his mind how he should address me. 'Hardress Fitzgerald, he began at length, 'are you awake?
Oliver deliberately folded up the papers with which I had been commissioned, and placing them in the pocket of his vest, he said: 'Cunning, cunning Master Hardress Fitzgerald hath made a false step; the old fox is in the toils. Hardress Fitzgerald, Hardress Fitzgerald, I will blot you out.
Close by the fire was strewed a bed of heath, intended, I supposed, for the stalwart limbs of the general. 'Hardress Fitzgerald, said he, fixing his eyes gravely upon me, while he slowly removed the tobacco-pipe from his mouth, 'I remember you, strong, bold and cunning in your warlike trade; the more desperate an enterprise, the more ready for it, you.
He declared that he had always loved his master, but that from the moment of the assault a change had come over his love. "He had his revenge, an' I'll have mine," he said. "He doesn't feel for me, an' I won't feel for him. Write down Danny Mann for the murderer of Eily, an' write down Hardress Cregan for his adviser." He produced the certificate of Eily's marriage.
"For your sake I will take some pains to become better known to this extraordinary girl, and you may depend on it you shall not suffer in my good report." When the household was asleep, Hardress went to his wife's room, and found her troubled because of the strangeness of their circumstances.
Eily O'Connor, the victim, is a pretty and pathetic figure; the hero-villain Hardress Cregan, and the mother who indirectly causes the crime, are effective though melodramatic; but the actual murderer, Danny the Lord, Hardress Cregan's familiar, is worthy of Scott or Hugo.
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