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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was likely that he would be hanged, and Yorke Clayton might find his comfort in that. And now had come up this terrible affair at Kerrycullion, from which it was probable that the whole mystery of the new aristocracy would be abandoned. Mr. Jones, as he thought of it all, whispered to himself that if he would still hold up his head, life might yet be possible at Castle Morony.
Pat Gilligan had suffered for some such offence, and it was but just that she and he and they should suffer also. But the three might have to suffer, also, in their turns, if they consented to subject themselves to so bloody an aristocracy. And therefore they stalked forth at night and went up to Kerrycullion, at the heels of the other party, and saw it all.
Now, one after another, the six were killed, or all but killed, and then the three went back to their homes, resolved that they would have recourse to the other aristocracy. Between Galway and Cong and Kerrycullion, Hunter was kept going in these days, so as to obtain always the latest information for his master.
The charm of such outspoken truth does not reconcile itself at once to the untrained mind; but the fact of the loveliness does gradually creep in, and the hideous ugliness of the other venture. On the minds of those men of Kerrycullion something of the ugliness and something of the loveliness must have made itself apparent.
And if this family of Kellys were doomed, why should there not be other families of other Kellys, why not their own families? And if Kerrycullion were made to swim in blood, for that was the name of the townland in which these Kellys lived, why not any other homestead round the place in which four or five victims may have hidden themselves?
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