t courage and determination.

"If the Lord-Lieutenant isn't coming," he said, "and I can see by the
look of you that you know he's not, who's going to pay for the statue
and the rest of the foolishness you're after buying? That's what I'd
like to know."

"Don't you fret about that, Doyle," said Dr. O'Grady. "That will be all
right."

"How can it?" said Doyle. "If the Lord-Lieutenant doesn't come, and he
won't, who's going to give us the money?"

"Leave that entirely in my hands," said Dr. O'Grady. "It'll be perfectly
all right."

"That's what you're always saying," said Doyle sulkily. "'It'll be all
right. It'll be all right.' Haven't you been saying it to me for the
last two years? 'All right,' says you, and, 'It's all right,' whenever
the money you owe me is mentioned."

"More shame for you then, Doyle, for mentioning it so often. I wouldn't
say 'All right' or anything else about it if you didn't force me to."

"I'm dead sick of your 'All rights' anyway," said Doyle.

"Be quiet now," said Father McCormack. "Isn't the doctor doing the best
he can for you? Is it his fault that the Lord-Lieutenant isn't here?"

"If you'll only stop growling, Doyle, and co-operate with me in bringing
off the day's entertainment successfully----"

"Surely to goodness, O'Grady, you're not going on with the statue
farce?"

"Of course I am. The only chance we have now of getting the money----"

"It's a damned poor chance," said Doyle.

"On the contrary," said Dr. O'Grady, "it's a remarkably good chance.
Don't you see that if we unveil the statue successfully, in spite of the
way, the really scandalous way, the Lord-Lieutenant has treated us----"

"I wash my hands of the whole business," said the Major.

"You can wash them afterwards," said Dr. O'Grady, "but at present you'll
stand in with the rest of us. After the way the Lord-Lieutenant has
treated us over the statue he'll have to give us a rattling good pier.
He won't be able to refuse. Oh, hang it! Here's Mrs. Gregg again."

Mrs. Gregg had settled Mary Ellen's shawl. She had spoken sternly, with
an authority borrowed from her husband's official position, to Sergeant
Colgan. She was filled with curiosity and excitement.

"Someone must get her out of this," said Dr. O'Grady. "I can't settle
things with her babbling at me.

"If there was a chance that she'd be wanting a drink," said Doyle, "but
them ones wouldn't."

"Mrs. Gregg," said Dr. O'Grady, "excuse my mentioning