"I did not, for you've got a hard head surely, but there's a pair of us in it, mister."
He was silent again, then:
"I wonder who is the Guardian Angel of Eileen Ni Cooley? for he has his work cut out for him, I'm thinking."
"I am her Guardian Angel," said Finaun.
"Are you telling me that?"
Mac Cann stared at Finaun, and he lapsed again to reverie.
"Ah, well!" said he to Billy the Music, "it was a fine story you told us, mister, and queer deeds you were mixed up in; but I'd like to meet the men that took our clothes, I would so."
"I can tell you something more about them," Caeltia remarked.
"So you said a while back. What is it you can tell us?"
"I can tell you the beginning of all that tale."