ne of his haunts in the town; Barry
went to the bank, to endeavour to get a bill discounted [30]; and Daly
returned to his office, to prepare the notices for the unfortunate
widow and her son.

[FOOTNOTE 30: bill discounted--A common way for young men to
borrow money in nineteenth century Britain was to
sign a promissory note (an "I.O.U."), often called a
"bill," to repay the loan at a specified time. The
lender gave the borrower less than the face value
of the note (that is, he "discounted" the note),
the difference being the interest. Sometimes these
notes were co-signed by a third party, who became
responsible for repaying the loan if the borrower
defaulted; this is one of the major themes in
Trollope's later book _Framley Parsonage_. Trollope
himself was quite familiar with methods of
borrowing, having gotten into debt in his youth.]

XIX. MR DALY VISITS THE DUNMORE INN

Daly let no grass grow under his feet, for early on the following
morning he hired a car, and proceeded to Dunmore, with the notices in
his pocket. His feelings were not very comfortable on his journey, for
he knew that he was going on a bad errand, and he was not naturally
either a heartless or an unscrupulous man, considering that he was a
provincial attorney; but he was young in business, and poor, and he
could not afford to give up a client. He endeavoured to persuade
himself that it certainly was a wrong thing for Martin Kelly to marry
such a woman as Anty Lynch, and that Barry had some show of justice on
his side; but he could not succeed. He knew that Martin was a frank,
honourable fellow, and that a marriage with him would be the very thing
most likely to make Anty happy; and he was certain, moreover, that,
however anxious Martin might naturally be to secure the fortune, he
would take no illegal or even unfair steps to do so. He felt that his
client was a ruffian of the deepest die: that his sole object was to
rob his sister, and that he had no case which it would be possible even
to bring before a jury. His intention now was, merely to work upon the
timidity and ignorance of Anty and the other females, and to frighten
them with a bugbear in the shape of a criminal indictment; and Daly
felt that the w