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Updated: May 20, 2025
As he went on upon his journey his imagination went to work to picture to himself the state of his father's life under these circumstances. But his imagination was soon outstripped by the information which reached him from fellow-travellers. "Did ye hear what happened to old Phil Jones down at Morony?" said a passenger, who got in at Moate, to another who had joined them at Athlone.
His companions were now the small farmers of the neighbourhood and the shopkeepers in the adjoining town of Moate, to whose habits and modes of thought and expression he gradually conformed, till it became positively irksome to himself to keep the company of his equals.
Not only was there a capital fire in the grate, and the table ready laid for supper, but a half-dozen or more of the notabilities of Moate were in waiting to receive the new candidate, and confer with him over the coming contest. 'My companion is the nephew of an old neighbour of yours, gentlemen, said Miller; 'Captain Gorman O'Shea, of the Imperial Lancers of Austria.
'A letter for your honour, said the servant, entering with a very informal-looking note on coarse paper, and fastened with a wafer. 'The gossoon, sir, is waiting for an answer; he run every mile from Moate. 'Read it, Kitty, said the old man, not heeding the servant's comment.
The two friends were deposited at the Moate station at a few minutes after midnight, and their available resources amounting to something short of two shillings, and the fare of a car and horse to Kilgobbin being more than three times that amount, they decided to devote their small balance to purposes of refreshment, and then set out for the castle on foot.
'My father has gone over to Moate to-day, said Kearney, now speaking for the first time, 'to hear the examination of two fellows who have been taken up on suspicion. 'You have plenty of this sort of thing in your country, said Atlee to Nina. 'Where do you mean when you say my country? 'I mean Greece. 'But I have not seen Greece since I was a child, so high; I have lived always in Italy.
I have sent for post-horses to Moate, and ordered a special train to town. I shall, I hope, catch the eight o'clock boat for Holyhead, and be with his lordship before this time to-morrow. If I do not see the ladies, for I believe they are out walking, will you make my excuses and my adieux? my confusion and discomfiture will, I feel sure, plead for me.
'Shall I put the resolution to the vote, or read this letter first, gentlemen? said the chairman. 'Read! read! was the cry, and he broke the seal. It ran thus: 'Mr. McGloin, Will you please to inform the members of the "Goat Club" at Moate that I retire from the presidency, and cease to be a member of that society?
God reward and keep her long in the way to do it! with all this, Miss O'Shea had not accomplished the first stage of her journey to Dublin, when Peter Gill was seated in the office of Pat McEvoy, the attorney at Moate smart practitioner, who had done more to foster litigation between tenant and landlord than all the 'grievances' that ever were placarded by the press.
I have not told you of the beating heart that hangs over this paper, nor will I darken one bright moment of your fortune by the gloom of mine. If you will write me one line a farewell if it must be send it to the care of Adam Cobb, "Cross Keys," Moate, where I shall find it up to Thursday next.
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