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Updated: June 6, 2025
On the evening previous to the fair at Mohill mentioned in the last chapter, Captain Ussher with a party of his men had succeeded in making a seizure of some half-malted barley in a cabin on the margin of a little lake on the low mountains, which lay between Mohill and Cashcarrigan.
And it was not only for her own degradation, dreadful as that was, that she grieved, but Ussher himself he of whom she had felt so fond whom she had so loved was this his truth, his love? was this the protection he had sworn to give her against her father's folly, and her brother's violence? and, as he had basely added, against Father John's bigotry?
"Joe mostly leads those boys up at Drumleesh, an' hard to lead they are; I'm thinking Captain Ussher, with all his revenue of peelers an' his guns, may meet his match there yit. They'll hole him, av he goes on much farthur, as shure as my name's Pat." "They'll get the worst of that, Brady not that I care a thrawneen for him and his company.
Then he thought of Ussher, and the scene which had passed between them last night; he knew he had been drunk, and had but a very confused recollection of what he had done or said.
Father John had not returned home till two in the morning, and he then heard some garbled version of the story, from which he was led to believe that Thady was in custody at Carrick, for the murder of Ussher.
As he was returning, the third time, for the same bad purpose, for the short stimulus of the dram was the only relief he could find to the depression which seemed to weigh him down and make his heart feel like a cold lump within him, and just as he was turning from the avenue to the back of the house, he met Ussher walking down.
"Oh then, Father John, he's satisfied to say men become Protestants when they are no longer fit to be Catholics; was that the way yourself become a Protestant, Captain Ussher?" "If I'm to be d d for that, you know, it's my father's and mother's fault. I ain't like Keegan. I didn't choose the bad road myself."
"Well, Miss Macdermot," said Ussher, seeing he could not prevail without causing an absolute break with Thady, "your brother wants you to count the rent for him. I'm glad he has received so much; it must be that, I presume, for he seldom troubles himself on much else, I believe." "I do what I have to do, and must do; God knows its throuble enough.
Is that his frind, Pat?" "Didn't I tell ye, Joe, he hates Ussher a d d sight worse nor you or I; there's little need to say anything to him about that." "Why wouldn't he join us then?
"What makes you think that, Captain Ussher?" "I could hardly explain the different things which make me think so; but I'm sure of it; and it is for you to judge whether, if such be the case, your confidence will not enable him, under the present state of affairs at Ballycloran, to do you and your father much injury.
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