not to leave the women by themselves in the power of the enemy, he also
waited at the door till it was opened by Katty.

"Is Miss Lynch within?" asked Daly.

"Go round to the shop, Katty," said Martin, "and tell mother to come to
the door. There's a gentleman wanting her."

"It was Miss Lynch I asked for," said Daly, still looking to the girl
for an answer.

"Do as I bid you, you born ideot, and don't stand gaping there,"
shouted Martin to the girl, who immediately ran off towards the shop.

"I might as well warn you, Mr Kelly, that, if Miss Lynch is denied
to me, the fact of her being so denied will be a very sthrong proof
against you and your family. In fact, it amounts to an illegal
detention of her person, in the eye of the law." Daly said this in a
very low voice, almost a whisper.

"Faith, the law must have quare eyes, av' it makes anything wrong with
a young lady being asked the question whether or no she wishes to see
an attorney, at eleven in the morning."

"An attorney!" whispered Meg to Jane and Anty at the top of the stairs.

"Heaven and 'arth," said poor Anty, shaking and shivering--"what's
going to be the matter now?"

"It's young Daly," said Jane, stretching forward and peeping clown the