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"You do not mean that he is to supplant Ronayne, I hope," returned her friend, trying to laugh her oat of the serious mood, in which she seemed so much inclined to indulge. "How can you speak so, Margaret? No, my presentiment is of a different character. But it is very foolish and silly to allow the feeling to weigh with me. I will try to think more rationally.
'You had better come away at once, Nagle. 'Why should I? indignantly. 'If you stop five minutes longer there's a shower of rain coming on and you might get washed. On a third occasion, Nagle told Ronayne he was going to invest some money in a mining exploration. 'Explore your own landed property, my dear fellow, was Ronayne's advice. 'But you know I have not got any.
"Where the devil have you been, man, and with what confounded impudence you got through the scrape," was remarked at a distant part of the same ground, and at the same moment with the conversation just given. "How is Maria?" eagerly asked Ronayne. "When shall I see her?"
"No, no, no, do not call him up, Ronayne you cannot think how much the presence of that Indian troubles me." "Nay, dearest Maria, you are not yourself. Why continue this strong dislike against the poor fellow? I thought you had quite forgiven him."
While so employed, and awaiting the appearance of the sergeant, Ronayne, who had now no motive for further mystery or concealment, detailed at the request of his friend, but in much more succinct terms than he had done in the paper he had handed to Maria Heywood, the circumstances connected with his absence from the Fort, on the night of the attack upon the farm, and the means taken by him to attain the object in which he had been thwarted by Captain Headley.
"I know what you would urge, Mr. Ronayne," remarked the captain; you would offer this in plea for your late appearance. I make all due allowance in the matter; but, let me tell you, sir, that an officer who thoroughly understands his duty, and consults the interests of the service, would make light of these matters, in cases of strong emergency." "Poor Ronayne!" sighed Maria, to her friend.
If I give comparative good news of your father, there is another who ought to be here, and whose absence at this moment is to me at once a pain and a mystery." "You mean Harry Ronayne?" she said, hesitatingly, but without manifesting surprise.
And yet, notwithstanding this utter devotedness of soul notwithstanding her flattering heart confessed in secret the fullest realization of those dreams which had filled and sustained her in early girlhood albeit the assurance the felt that, in Ronayne, she had found the impersonation of the imaginings of her maturer life, still whenever he urged her in glowing language to name the day when she would become his wife, she evaded an answer, not from caprice, but because she would not bring to him a heart clouded by the slightest tinge of that anxiety with which ignorance of her father's fate, could not fail to shade it.
But neither Maria Heywood or Ronayne stood much on this punctilio. Provided the ceremony was legal, and according to the customs of the country, it mattered little who married them the governor of a district the commandant of a garrison, or a Gretna Green blacksmith had they felt at all disposed to avail themselves of the services of the latter.
'Good Heavens, you don't mean to say you have cleaned your nails? Though he was an out-and-out Fenian, Ronayne was as honest a man as I ever met, and he was considered one of the most amusing men in the House of Commons. The attorneys in Cork at one time formed quite a small coterie, who divided all the business until it grew too much for them, one, Mr.
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