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In Munster, with the exception of a trifling skirmish between the West-Meath yeomanry under Sir Hugh O'Reilly, with whom were the Caithness legion, under Major Innes, and a body of 300 or 400 ill-armed peasants, who attacked them on the 19th of June, on the road from Clonakilty to Bandon, there was no notable attempt at insurrection.
At the second shot Mr Innes was wounded in the thigh; and it was a close shave on the other side, for Mr Innes's ball went through Mr Cruickshank's whiskers. Mr Innes, however, kept his appointment with Mr Stewart next morning. Mr Stewart said that he met him at Durris House at breakfast.
But when at last we had left the family on the porch and the good doctor was untying our steed, I asked him the same question I had put to Doctor Walker. "Shot!" he said. "Bless my soul, no. Why, what have you been doing up at the big house, Miss Innes?" "Some one tried to enter the house during the fire, and was shot and slightly injured," I said hastily.
In the first year of his reign, the Statute of Laborers of Elizabeth was confirmed, as well as that against rogues and vagabonds; the ninth act of his first Parliament was "To restraine the inordinate hauntinge and tiplinge in Innes and Alehouses," and, indeed, much of his legislation is aimed at what should properly be called "sins" rather than "crimes"; the next act after this was one to restrain "all persons from Marriage until their former Wyves and former Husbandes be deade."
Innes remained free from suspicion of vulgarity the sad dignity of his grey face and the dreams that haunted his eyes saved him from that. "And whose mass are you going to play to-day?" she asked him. "A mass by Hummel, in B; on Thursday, a mass by Dr. Gladstone; and next Sunday, Mozart's Twelfth, beloved of Father Gordon and village choirs.
"And that was some years ago?" "About four years ago. I had come over from Ireland with a few pounds in my pocket, and a portmanteau full of music, which I soon found no one wanted." "You had written music before you had met father?" "Yes, I was organist at St. Patrick's in Dublin for nearly three years. There's no one like your father, Miss Innes."
"Ah! Exactly so," said the chairman, greatly relieved. "Mr. Boggs Perhaps Mr. Boggs will enlighten us." Mr. Boggs arose with ponderous deliberation. "Mr. Chairman," he said, "in one sense Mr. Hayes is right when he states the arrears to be seven hundred dollars " "Five hundred dollars A'm tellin' ye," said Mr. Innes with the first sign of feeling he had shown. "And Mr.
"Stokes wanted to detain the servant, whose name is Hoskins, but I simply wouldn't hear of it. I am a poor man, but I would cheerfully give fifty pounds to know where Nicol Brinn is at this moment." Innes stood up restlessly and began to drum his fingers upon the table edge. Presently he looked up, and: "There's a shadow of hope," he said.
Innes had made up his mind as to whether the old lady intended a personal rebuke. 'Hae, grannie, he said, going up to her, and putting the two sovereigns in her white palm. He had found some difficulty in making Shargar give up his, else he would have returned sooner. 'What's this o' 't, laddie? said Mrs. Falconer. 'Hoots! I'm nae gaein' to tak yer siller. Lat the puir soutar-craturs hae 't.
Miss Innes, after backing far away from him, slowly returned, as if impelled to do so against her will, and, standing over the body, looked at it with curiosity, repulsion, terror; and then she burst into a whispered laugh, which communicated a feeling of real horror to the audience.
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