uched, it's an additional reason why you
should protect her from intriguing and interested schemers. Don't you
see?"

Barry did see, or fancied he saw, that he had now got the Kellys
in a dead fix, and Anty back into his own hands again; and his
self-confidence having been fully roused by his potations, he was
tolerably happy, and talked very loudly of the manner in which he would
punish those low-bred huxters, who had presumed to interfere with him
in the management of his family.

Towards the latter end of the evening, he became even more
confidential, and showed the cloven foot, if possible, more
undisguisedly than he had hitherto done. He spoke of the impossibility
of allowing four hundred a year to be carried off from him, and
suggested to Daly that his sister would soon drop off,--that there
would then be a nice thing left, and that he, Daly, should have the
agency, and if he pleased, the use of Dunmore House. As for himself, he
had no idea of mewing himself up in such a hole as that; but, before he
went, he'd take care to drive that villain, Moylan, out of the place.
"The cursed villany of those Kellys, to go and palm such a robber as
that off on his sister, by way of an agent!"

To all this, Daly paid but little attention, for he saw that his host
was drunk. But when Moylan's name was mentioned, he began to think that
it might be as well either to include him in the threatened indictment,
or else, which would be better still, to buy him over to their side,
as they might probably learn from him what Martin's plans really were.
Barry was, however, too tipsy to pay much attention to this, or to
understand any deep-laid plans. So the two retired to their beds, Barry
determined, as he declared to the attorney in his drunken friendship,
to have it out of Anty, when he caught her; and Daly promising to go to
Tuam early in the morning, have the notices prepared and served, and
come back in the evening to dine and sleep, and have, if possible, an
interview with Mr Moylan. As he undressed, he reflected that, during
his short professional career, he had been thrown into the society of
many unmitigated rogues of every description; but that his new friend,
Barry Lynch, though he might not equal them in energy of villany and
courage to do serious evil, beat them all hollow in selfishness, and
utter brutal want of feeling, conscience, and principle.

X. DOT BLAKE'S ADVICE

In hour or two after Martin Kelly had l