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Moran's sullen, insolent eyes suddenly encountering a dangerous, steely glare from Kilbride's gray orbs he wilted and immediately dropped his belligerent attitude. "No use me hirin' a mouthpiece," he added, "as I'm a-goin' t' plead guilty t' all them charges." "Ah!" The inspector thoughtfully conned over the "informations" once more.
Gully's huge chest heaved once, and he bowed his head in silent acknowledgment of Kilbride's act of leniency. "All right! go ahead, Gully!" said the latter. The prisoner took up his tale anew. "As I was saying I left the Old Country when I was sixteen. No need to drag in family troubles, but . . . that's why. . . . Well! I hit for the States.
In the light of after events, well did Slavin and Yorke recall the furtive appealing glance the hobo threw at Gully; well did they also remember certain of Kilbride's words: "There'll be quite a lot of things crop up in our minds that we'll be wondering we never thought of before." The justice cleared his throat.
Then, pointing to a ridge of hills beyond us, he said: "It was Kilbride's father, sir, evicted seventeen tenants on these hills poor labouring men, with their families, many years ago, and now he's evicted himself, and a Member of Parliament!" Father Maher's house stands well off from the highway. He was not at home, being "away at a service in the hills," but would be back before two o'clock.
Kilbride's holdings, for instance, Lord Lansdowne expended over £3000, for which he added to the rent £130 a year, or about 4 per cent., while he himself stood to pay 6-1/2 per cent, on the loans he made from the Board of Works for the expenditure. In the same way it was with Mr. Dunne's farms.
It brings money all the time to Athy, and sells the horses." As to the troubles at Luggacurren, he was not very clear. "It was a beautiful place, Mr. Dunne's; we'd see it presently. And Mr. Dunne, he was a good one for sport. It was that, your honour, that got him into the trouble" "And Mr. Kilbride?" "Oh, Mr. Kilbride's place was a very good place too, but not like Mr. Dunne's.
Kilbride's holdings Lord Lansdowne had expended in drainage works £1931, 6s. 3d., and in buildings £1247, 19s. 5d., or in all more than four years' rental. Mr. Kilbride held his lands on life leases. Mr.
Dunne's we drove to Mr. Kilbride's, another ample, very comfortable house not so thoroughly well fitted up with bathroom and other modern appurtenances as Mr. Dunne's perhaps but still a very good house. It stands on a large green knoll, rather bare of trees, and commands a fine sweep of landscape. Mr.
"Arrah, thin! shut up, Yorkey!" hissed the sergeant in a warning aside, "they'll hear yez. Here they come." Presently the five were grouped together. Inspector Kilbride's stern features were set in a thoughtful, lowering scowl. Mr. Gully's tanned, leathery countenance looked curiously mottled. "Sergeant!" The inspector clicked off his words sharply. "This is a bad case.
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