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"Will you allow me to ask, sir, whether Miss Folliard is aware of this mission of yours to me?" "She aware! She never dreamt of it; but I have promised to tell her the result after dinner to-day." "Well, sir," replied Reilly, "will you allow me to state to you a few facts?" "Certainly; go on."
The guns were placed on the road near the Teche, with orders to stand fast. Reilly and Vincent dismounted their men, sent horses well to the rear, and formed line in the wood to the left of the guns, with Clack to the left of Vincent. The first light of dawn made objects visible and aroused the Federals, some two hundred yards distant.
His master encouraged him with ironic derision. "That's right, Reilly. Who's afraid? Cough it up and show York you're game." "By thunder, I AM game. I've got a kick coming, sorr." "Yes?" Leroy rolled and lit a cigarette, his black eyes fixed intently on the malcontent. "Well, register it on the jump. I've got to be off." "That's the point."
"Upon what grounds?" replied Reilly. "I am conscious of no offence against the laws of the land. Do you know who I am? and is my name in your warrant?" "No, but your appearance answers completely to the description given in the Hue and Cry. Your dress is the same as that of the robber, and you must come with us to the sheriff whom you have robbed. His house is only a quarter of a mile from this."
"I grant it, but still I pledge you my honor that I looked upon her as an extremely proper person to be about your daughter; you know, sir, that you as well as I have had and have still apprehensions as to Reilly's conduct and influence over her; and I did fear, and so did you, that the maid who then attended her, and to whom I was told she was attached with such unusual affection, might have availed herself of her position, and either attempted to seduce her from her faith, or connive at private meetings with Reilly."
One makes a slave of you, and the other allows you to play the tyrant. A plague, as I heard a fellow say in a play once, a plague o' both your houses: if you paid more attention to your duties, and scrambled less for wealth and power, and this world's honors, you would not turn it upside down as you do. Helen!" "Well, papa." "I have doubts whether I shall allow you to sound Reilly on. Popery."
Buckley," said Reilly, "it was not for nothing I came here to-night. I have a favor to ask of you." "Your favor's granted, sir," she replied "granted, Mr. Reilly, even before I hear it that is, supposin' always that it's in my power to do it for you." "It is simply to carry a letter and be certain that it shall be delivered to the proper person." "Well," she replied, "sure that's aisily done.
The country was in a most excited state, and party feeling ran fearfully high. Nothing was talked of but the two trials, par excellence, to wit, that of Whitecraft and Reilly; and scarcely a fair or market, for a considerable time previous, ever came round in which there waa not a battle on the subject of either one or the other of them, and not unfrequently of both.
Thanks to Lanigan, however, they were both harmless, that worthy man having forgotten to put in bullets, or even as much powder as would singe an ordinary whisker. "Forbear, sir," exclaimed the sheriff, addressing Cummiskey; "unhand Mr. Reilly. He is already in custody, and you, Mr. Folliard, may thank God that you are not a murderer this night.
Leave them with widow Buckley, and I can find them there." It was so arranged. Fergus went on his way, as did Reilly and the bishop. The latter conducted him to the house of a middling farmer, whose son the bishop had sent, at his own expense, to a continental college.
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