be so tough a customer, or make such a good fight; but I think I've
managed him."

"There was a regular plan then, eh, Daly? Just as I said. It was a
regular planned scheme among them?"

"Wait a moment, and you'll know all about it, at least as much as I
know myself; and, to tell the truth, that's devilish little. But, if we
manage to break off the match, and get your sister clane out of the inn
there, you must give Moylan your agency, at any rate for two or three
years."

"You haven't promised that?"

"But I have, though. We can do nothing without it: it was only when I
hinted that, that the old sinner came round."

"But what the deuce is it he's to do for us, after all?"

"He's to allow us to put him forward as a bugbear, to frighten the
Kellys with: that's all, and, if we can manage that, that's enough. But
come down now. I only wanted to warn you that, if you think the agency
is too high a price to pay for the man's services, whatever they may
be, you must make up your mind to dispense with them."

"Well," answered Barry, as he followed the attorney downstairs, "I
can't understand what you're about; but I suppose you must be right;"
and they went into the little parlour where Moylan was sitting.

Moylan and Barry Lynch had only met once, since the former had been