"Honestly! You caught poor Harris drunk, and swindled him out of his land," retorted Dr. Marsh.
"Peace! Peace!" sighed Father Healy, attempting to take the doctor away by force.
"And you murdered Mat Devlin, as you've murdered a host of others," cried Ebenezer Brown.
Dr. Marsh broke from his friend's arm and went round the table where Ebenezer Brown sat. Shaking his fist in the old man's face, he cried:
"If I had one per cent. of your sins on my shoulders, I would never sleep again. I am tempted to give you the little blow that would be the end of you; but I don't like to rob you of your small hope of repentance."
CHAPTER III.
THE QUIRKS.
A splendid house, extravagantly furnished, green lawns, gardens bright in colours, and rich pasture lands around. Inside the house a crotchety old man and a lonely woman. Such was Kathleen O'Connor's new home at "Layton."