He noted, however, that the nod
which Studd Bradley, the financier, gave him had in it an enigmatic
something which puzzled him. Surely Bradley could not be prejudiced
against him because of the evidence he had given. There was nothing
criminal in living under an assumed name, which, anyhow, was his own name
in three-fourths of it, and in the other part was the name of the county
where he was born.
"Divils me own, I told you he was up among the dukes," said Malachi Deely
to John Sibley as they came out. "And he's from me own county, and I
know the name well enough; an' a damn good name it is. The bulls of
Castlegarry was famous in the south of Ireland."
"I've a warm spot for him. I was right, you see. Backing horses ruined
him," said Sibley in reply; and he looked at Crozier admiringly.
There is the communion of saints, but nearer and dearer is the communion
of sinners; for a common danger is their bond, and that is even more than
a common hope.
CHAPTER IV
"STRENGTH SHALL BE GIVEN THEE"
On the evening of the day of the trial, Mrs. Tynan, having fixed the new
blind to the window of Shiel Crozier's room, which was on the ground-
floor front, was lowering and raising it to see if it worked properly,
when out in the moonlit street she saw a wagon approaching her house
surrounded and followed by obviously excited men. Once before she had
seen just such a group nearing her door.
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