CHAPTER XIV
While this conversation had been taking place the others stood in a grave semicircle, and listened intently to their words.
Caeltia, regarding the sky, intervened:
"The rain will be here in a minute, so we had better walk on and look for shelter."
Mac Cann detached his heavy regard from Eileen Ni Cooley, and swept the sky and the horizon.
"That is so," said he. "Let us go ahead now, for we've had our talk, and we are all satisfied."
"There is a broken-down house stuck up a bohereen," he continued. "It's only a few perches up this road, for I remember passing the place the last time I was this way; that place will give us shelter while the rain spills."