“Faith I do, well; it’s not so long since.”
“And do you mind my telling you, I didn’t know from Adam what it was for, that Barry Lynch was sending for me?”
“And I remember that, too.”
“And that I tould you, that when I did know I shouldn’t tell you?”
“Begad you did, Mr Daly; thim very words.”
“Why then, Martin, I tould you what wasn’t thrue, for I’m come all the way from Tuam, this minute, to tell you all about it.”
Martin turned very red, for he rightly conceived that when an attorney came all the way from Tuam to talk to him, the tidings were not likely to be agreeable.
“And is it about Barry Lynch’s business?”
“It is.”
“Then it’s schames—there’s divil a doubt of that.”