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At the latter, Fred Neville, since he had been quartered at Ennis, had kept a boat for the sake of shooting seals and exploring the coast, and generally carrying out his spirit of adventure. Not far from Liscannor was Castle Quin, the seat of the Earl of Kilfenora; and some way up from Liscannor towards the cliffs, about two miles from the village, there is a cottage called Ardkill.
"Yes," said Neville, urged by the perturbation of his spirit to give a stronger assurance than he had intended. "Then must her son if she have one be the future Earl of Scroope. He may be Protesthant, or what you will?" "You don't understand me, Father Marty." "Faith, and that's thrue. But we are at the baich, Mr. Neville, and I've two miles along the coast to Liscannor."
But he went without answering this last accusation. "What shall we do, Kate, if he deceives us?" said the mother that evening. "Die. But I am sure he will not deceive us." Neville, as he made his way down to Liscannor, where his gig was waiting for him, did ask himself some serious questions about his adventure. What must be the end of it? And had he not been imprudent?
He was told how to knock at the door, and send in word by the servant to say that he had called on behalf of Mr. Neville. He was to drive as far as Liscannor, and then get some boy to accompany him on foot as a guide. He would not perhaps mind walking two or three miles. Simpkinson declared that were it ten he would not mind it. He was then to tell Mrs. O'Hara just the truth.
Barney Morony wouldn't be quite so quiet if I was not coming back. I'm to dine with Father Marty at Liscannor on the l5th of January, to meet another priest from Milltown Malbay, the best fellow in the world he says." "That's Father Creech; not half such a good fellow, Mr. Neville, as Father Marty himself." "He couldn't be better.
Behind the cottage there was an enclosed paddock which belonged to it, and in which Mrs. O'Hara kept her cow. Roaming free around the house, and sometimes in it, were a dozen hens and a noisy old cock which, with the cow, made up the total of the widow's live stock. About a half a mile from the cottage on the way to Liscannor there were half a dozen mud cabins which contained Mrs.
But she wore it always without any cap, tied in a simple knot behind her head. Whether chignons had been invented then the author does not remember, but they certainly had not become common on the coast of County Clare, and the peasants about Liscannor thought Mrs. O'Hara's head of hair the finest they had ever seen.
"You're going on to Ardkill, I suppose, my Lord," he said. "Yes; certainly; but I intended to take the Liscannor road on purpose to see you. I shall leave the car at Liscannor and walk up. You could not return, I suppose?" "Well, yes, I might." "If you could, Father Marty " "Oh, certainly." The priest now saw that there was something more in the man's manner than lordly pride.
On this day he had not found Mrs. O'Hara at the cottage. She had gone down to Liscannor, Kate told him. He had sent his boat back to the strand near that village, round the point and into the bay, as it could not well lie under the rocks at high tide, and he now asked Kate to accompany him as he walked down. They would probably meet her mother on the road.
In accordance with this plan he did drive over to Lahinch. He might have saved time by directing that his boat should come across the bay to meet him at Liscannor, but he felt that he would prefer not to meet Father Marty at present.
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