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Connell, the head-constable was told by me that she was to get goods, and she did get bread, till the police went round with her. This upset my arrangements, as I had induced the people to give her what she might really want. In fact she was a convenience to Mrs.
He then handed the letter to his father, and immediately going over to his sick sister, he placed a slice of bread and butter in her hand, adding, "The head-constable of police gave it to me; I would have refused it though but for Maria." "Did you eat none of it yourself, Edward?" asked Maria. "No," he replied, "I thought mamma might make you up some light nice thing out of it."
But they are always putting in some sly word in behalf of Moriarty and Hayes, the men accused of the murder." "Furthermore," said another guest, "these two men are regularly supplied while in prison with special meals by Mrs. Tangney. Who foots the bills? That is what she won't tell, nor has the Head-Constable so far been able accurately to ascertain.
The head-constable was sent for, and after examining the relics of the case, he came to the same conclusion at which the rest had already arrived, namely, that the watch could not have been stolen by an ordinary footpad, but by some personal enemy of the schoolmaster's, whose object was not plunder, but annoyance and injury. To the population of Warley this solution was a very agreeable one.
"My master has a right to know his crime before he goes to prison," said the negro. "Yes, but the magistrate's abed." The negro stuck to his position, however, and the people who had come up declared with one consent that he was in the right. The head-constable gave in, and said he would take me to a house in the city. "Then drive to that city," said I, "and have done with it."
I thought it might amuse you to have a look at my prisoners before I handed them over to the head-constable, who I see is now coming up the avenue." "The poor burglars!" cried Laura. "It is no wonder that they look bewildered, for I suppose, Mr. Haw, that they neither know where they are, nor how they came there.
Head-Constable Toffy had himself acknowledged to him that Sam could have had no hand in it. "I told you so from the beginning," said the Vicar. "We 'as got the right uns, at any rate," said the constable; "and it wasn't none of our fault that we hadn't 'em before."
I start to-morrow, and if I do not succeed in bottoming the recent outrages which are hushed up as much as possible, and of which the local newspaper-men, both Nationalist and Conservative, together with Head-Constable MacBrinn, declare they cannot get at the precise particulars if I cannot get to the root of the matter, I shall in my next letter have the honour of stating the reason why.
"An eye for an eye!" she said to the head-constable when the man interrogated her. It soon became known to all Liscannor, to Ennistimon, to the ladies at Castle Quin, and to all the barony of Corcomroe that Mrs. O'Hara had thrust the Earl of Scroope over the cliffs of Moher, and that she was now detained at the house of Father Marty in the custody of a policeman.
"My master has a right to know his crime before he goes to prison," said the negro. "Yes, but the magistrate's abed." The negro stuck to his position, however, and the people who had come up declared with one consent that he was in the right. The head-constable gave in, and said he would take me to a house in the city. "Then drive to that city," said I, "and have done with it."
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