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When Caius had listened to the evidence given before this official personage, hearing the tale again that he had already heard many times in a few minutes, and told what he himself had seen, he began to wonder how he could still harbour in his mind the belief in O'Shea's guilt.
From this interview, and from the clue which Madame Le Maître had given, he began strongly to suspect that, for some reason unknown, O'Shea's threatenings were to be remembered more in the light of a practical joke than as serious. As to where the men had come from who had played their part, as to where the boy had gone to, or whether the boy and the lady were one on these heads he got no light.
They had got liberal institutions and a free press, and they were good Catholics, who would give those heretical Prussians a fine lesson one of these days; and Gorman O'Shea's health, coupled with these sentiments, was drank with all the honours. 'There's a jolly old face that I ought to remember well, said Gorman, as he looked up at the portrait of Lord Kilgobbin over the chimney.
'But surely O'Shea's Barn, being the residence and property of his aunt, there was no impropriety in his going there? 'The informant states that the place was in the tenancy of this said Gill, one of your own people, Mr. Kearney. I wish you luck of him. 'I disown him, root and branch; he is a disgrace to any side. And where is Miss Betty O'Shea? 'In a convent or a monastery, they say.
The aforesaid if I spoke of hi before Gorman O'Shea, having, suadente diabolo, smashed down doors and windows, palisadings and palings, and broke open cabinets, chests, cupboards, and other contrivances. In a word, he went into another man's house, and when asked what he did there, he threw the proprietor out of the window. There's the whole of it. 'Where was the house? 'O'Shea's Barn.
'Well done! whoever you are, cried Kearney, delighted, as the rider removed his hat and turned round to salute him. 'And don't you know me, sir? asked he. ''Faith, I do not, replied Kearney; 'but somehow I think I know the chestnut. To be sure I do. There's the old mark on her knee, how ever she found the man who could throw her down. Isn't she Miss O'Shea's Kattoo?
Walpole, but I have not made his acquaintance yet, and can tell nothing about him. Towards a late hour of the afternoon a messenger arrived with an ass-cart and several trunks from O'Shea's Barn, and with the following note: 'DEAR NEPHEW GORMAN, O'Shea's Barn is not an inn, nor are the horses there at public livery. So much for your information.
It's the first necessary quality for a horse in these parts." "What sort of things grow here?" asked Caius, pawing the ground with his foot. He could not quite get over the inward impression that the mountainous-looking region of the dune over against them was towered with infernal palaces, so weird was the place. O'Shea's voice came out of the darkness; his form was hardly to be seen.
He certainly had not the slightest intention of dismounting at O'Shea's command in order to go to the hunt. Caius held his horse as quiet as he could for some ten minutes, feigning an immense interest in the occupation of the women; then leisurely curvetted about, and set his horse at a light trot along the ice close by the shore.
Malevolent people, indeed, had said that Mathew Kearney had once had matrimonial designs on Miss Betty, or rather, on that snug place and nice property called 'O'Shea's Barn, of which she was sole heiress; but he most stoutly declared this story to be groundless, and in a forcible manner asseverated that had he been Robinson Crusoe and Miss Betty the only inhabitant of the island with him, he would have lived and died in celibacy.
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