"
"I know of none better or safer," said Burke.
"Ay, fifty," returned his companion, resuming his suspicious looks; "but
no matther, any way you must only plaise yerself--'tis all the shame to
me."
"Ahadarra it must be then," said the other, "and that ends it."
"Vary well, den, Ahadarra let her be," said Ted, and the conversation on
this subject dropped.
The smuggler's supper now made it's appearance. The geese were
beautifully done, and as Hycy's appetite had got a keen stimulus by his
mountain walk, he rendered them ample justice.
"Trot," said Teddy, "sich a walk as you had droo de mountains was enough
to sharpen anybody's appetite."
Hogan also plied him with punch, having provided himself with sugar for
that express purpose. Hycy, however, was particularly cautious, and for
a long time declined to do more than take a little spirits and water. It
was not, in fact, until he had introduced the name of Kathleen Cavanagh
that he consented to taste punch. Between the two, however, Burke's
vanity was admirably played on; and Hogan wound up the dialogue by
hinting that Hycy, no matter how appearances might go, was by no means
indifferent to the interesting daughter of the house of Cavanagh.
At length, when the night was far advanced, Burke rose, and taking his
leave like a man who had forgotten some appointment, but with a very
pompous degree of condescension, sought his way in the direction of
home, across the mountains.
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