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He ended by announcing the names of the gentlemen who were to form "The Statue Committee." Father McCormack came first on the list. Mr. Billing was second. Major Kent, Dr. O'Grady, Doyle and Gallagher himself made up the number.
The mass of the men, those who were talking about cattle, very courteously stopped their conversations and joined in whenever they heard a cheer beginning. There was, so Gallagher said in the next issue of the Connacht Eagle, an unmistakable and most impressive popular enthusiasm for General John Regan. Father McCormack, standing on a chair borrowed from Doyle's Hotel, opened the proceedings.
These baths gave me no relief, so I went to Sydney to consult Sir Alexander McCormack, who prescribed electrical treatment and hot air. This I tried for four months without any good results. I then went to Rotorua, in New Zealand, consulting the doctor there, who prescribed all the baths which are so efficacious in removing rheumatism.
I defy the most particular bishop that ever wore a purple stock to find out anything really bad about the General." "If I have your word for that," said Father McCormack, "I'm satisfied." "I'm not a rich man," said Dr. O'Grady. "I can't afford to lose money, but I'll pay down £50 to any man who proves anything bad about the General. And when I say bad I don't, mean things like "
'All right, says you, and, 'It's all right, whenever the money you owe me is mentioned." "More shame for you then, Doyle, for mentioning it so often. I wouldn't say 'All right' or anything else about it if you didn't force me to." "I'm dead sick of your 'All rights' anyway," said Doyle. "Be quiet now," said Father McCormack. "Isn't the doctor doing the best he can for you?
If, as Father McCormack supposed she heard every word spoken during the previous five minutes, she had very good reason for feeling nervous. She had a still better reason a moment later when Doyle caught sight of her. Doyle had completely lost command of his temper.
Father McCormack felt that if Major Kent thoroughly approved of the erection of a statue to General John Regan it was likely to be quite a proper thing to do. "I'm not sure," said Father McCormack, "whether it will suit me to take the chair at this meeting the doctor's getting up or not. I'm not sure, I say. Can you tell me now, Major Kent, who's this American gentleman they're all talking about?"
The Major was deeply touched by this eulogy; so deeply touched that he felt it wrong to leave Father McCormack under the impression that he was going to the meeting out of any feeling of admiration for General John Regan. "The fact is," he said, "that I wouldn't go near the meeting if I could help it." "Is there anything against that General then?" "It's not that.
I wouldn't like to do it in a case where my own nephew is a candidate." "You needn't tell us that, Mr. Doyle," said Father McCormack. "We all know that you're not the kind of man who'd be using his public position to further the interests of his relatives. What do you say now, gentlemen? Is Mr. Aloysius Doyle to be given the contract for the statue or not? What do you say, Major?"
"He was with me half-an-hour ago," said Doyle, "taking a look round at the luncheon and the rest of it. He went away back to his house to clean himself. If he knew but he didn't." "I'll go and see him at once," said Father McCormack. "You'll find that he's cut and run," said the Major.
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