Friar Brian came to the place where they were. "What is it all about from the beginning?" says Friar Brian. The Diabhac told him that he had this man bought for one and twenty years, and that he had to come with him to-day; "it is left to you to judge the case."
"Now," says Friar Brian, says he, "if you were to go to a fair to buy a cow or a horse, and if you gave earnest money for it, wouldn't you say that it was more just for you to have it than for the man who would come in the evening and who would buy it without paying any earnest money for it?"
"I say," says the Diabhac, "that the man who paid earnest money for it first, ought to get it."
"And now," says Friar Brian, "the Son of God paid earnest for this man before you bought him."
The Diabhac had to go away then.
Friar Brian asked then what would be done to him now when he had not got the man.
"I shall be put into the chamber which is for Friar Brian," said the Diabhac.[75]
"And now," said Friar Brian to the man whom he had saved, "I saved you now," says he, "and do you save me."