welcome to this opinion who think so," broke in Dunn,
peevishly. "Let them call him a fortunate one if they like, and they 'll
be nearer the mark.--What of this affair?" said he, at last "Have you
found out Conway?"

"No; but I learned that he dined and passed the evening with ould Paul
Kellett He came over to Ireland to bring him some news of his son, who
served in the same regiment, and so I went out to Kellett to pump them;
but for some reason or other they're as close as wax. The daughter beats
all ever you saw! She tried a great stroke of cunning with me, but it
wouldn't do."

"It was your poor head and the spotted fever,--eh?" said Dunn, laughing.

"Yes," said Driscoll; "I never was rightly myself since that" And he
laughed heartily.

"This is too slow for me, Driscoll; you must find out the young fellow
at once, and let me see him. I have read over the statement again, and
it is wonderfully complete. Hatch-ard has it now before him, and will
give me his opinion by Sunday next On that same day Mr. Beecher is to
dine with me; now if you could manage to have Conway here on Monday
morning, I 'd probably be in a condition to treat openly with him."

"You're going too fast,--too fast, entirely," said Driscoll; "sure, if
Conway sees the road before him, he may Just thravel it without us at
all."

"I 'll take care he shall not know which path to take, Driscoll; trust
me for that. Remember that the documents we have are all-essential to
him. Before he sees one of them our terms must be agreed on."

"I'll have ten thousand paid down on the nail. 'Tis eight years I am
collectin' them papers. I bought that shooting-lodge at Banthry,
that belonged to the Beechers, just to search the old cupboard in the
dinner-room. It was plastered over for fifty years, and Denis Magrath
was the only man living knew where it was."

"I am aware of all that. The discovery--if such it prove--was all your
own, Driscoll; and as to the money remuneration, I 'll not defraud you
of a sixpence."

"There was twelve hundred pounds," continued Driscoll, too full of his
own train of thought to think of anything else, "for a wretched ould
place with the roof fallin' in, and every stack of it rotten! Eight
years last Michaelmas,--that's money, let me tell you! and I never got
more than thirty pounds any year out of it since."

"You shall be paid, and handsomely paid."

"Yes," said Terry, nodding.

"You can have good terms on either side."