“He can hardly complain of that, when he’ll be getting all the money himself. But, however, it’s much betther, all ways, that Doctor Colligan should see him.”
“You know, Mrs Kelly,” said the Doctor, “as a matter of course he’ll be asking to see his sister.”
“You wouldn’t have him come in here to her, would you?—Faix, Doctor Colligan, it’ll be her death out right at once av he does.”
“It’d not be nathural, to refuse to let him see her,” said the Doctor; “and I don’t think it would do any harm: but I’ll be guided by you, Mrs Kelly, in what I say to him.”
“Besides,” said Martin, “I know Anty would wish to see him: he is her brother; and there’s only the two of ’em.”
“Between you be it,” said the widow; “I tell you I don’t like it. You neither of you know Barry Lynch, as well as I do; he’d smother her av it come into his head.”
“Ah, mother, nonsense now; hould your tongue; you don’t know what you’re saying.”
“Well; didn’t he try to do as bad before?”
“It wouldn’t do, I tell you,” continued Martin, “not to let him see her; that is, av Anty wishes it.”
It ended in the widow being sent into Anty’s room, to ask her whether she had any message to send to her brother. The poor girl knew how ill she was, and expected her death; and when the widow told her that Doctor Colligan was going to call on her brother, she said that she hoped she should see Barry once more before all was over.