"When we'd passed the bog," said Gallagher, "we took a twist round, like
as we might be trying to cut across to the Dunbeg Road."

"You seem to have gone pretty well all around the town," said Dr.
O'Grady. "I suppose you enjoyed driving about in a large motor. Was that
it?"

"It was not," said Gallagher, "but I was in dread to take him to Doyle's
farm not knowing what questions he might be asking about the General
when we got there. I'd be glad now, doctor, if you'd tell me who the
General was, for it's troublesome not knowing."

"There isn't time," said Dr. O'Grady, "to go into long explanations
simply to satisfy your morbid curiosity. Go on with your story. What
happened when you did get to the place? I suppose you got there in the
end?"

"We did of course," said Gallagher, "and I showed him the ruin of the
little houseen, the same as you told me to. 'And was it there,' says
he, 'that the great General, the immortal founder of the liberties of
Bolivia, first saw the light?' 'It was,' says I. So he took a leap out
of the motor-car and stood in front of the old house with his hat in his
hand. So I told him about the way the landlords had treated the people
of this country in times past, and the way we are meaning to serve them
out as soon as we have Home Rule, which is as good as got, only for the
blackguards of Orangemen up in the North. I told him----"

"I'm sure you did," said Dr. O'Grady, "but you needn't go over all that
to us, particularly as the Major hates that kind of talk."

"Nobody," said Gallagher, "would want to say a word that was displeasing
to the Major, who is well liked in this locality and always was. If only
the rest of the landlords was like him, instead of----"

"Go on about the American," said Dr. O'Grady, "did he throw stones at
you while you were making that speech about Home Rule?"

"He did not," said Gallagher, "but he stood there looking at the houseen
with the tears rolling down the cheeks of him----"

"What?" said Dr. O'Grady, "do you mean to tell me he cried?"

"It was like as if he was going to," said Gallagher, "and 'the patriot
statesman,' says he, 'the mighty warrior,' says he, and more to that,
the same as if he might be making a speech about the land and the league
boys cheering him."

"I'm rather bothered about that American in some ways," said Dr.
O'Grady. "Are you telling me the truth now, Thady, about what he said?"

"I am," said Gallagher. "I'd take my oath to ev