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Mr Ephraim Watts, in spite of all confusion, clad as carefully as upon

the preceding day, deliberately clile steady gesture with his hand He was listened to at

once, as his respect for the laas less notorious than his irreverence

for it, and he had been known in Carlow as a custoal and desperate advice, and quieted down to hear it He

spoke in his professionally calm voice

"Gentle to the

ood are we doing here?

What ant to knohat's happened to Mr Harkless It looks just now

like the shell-ht have done it Let's find out what they done

Scatter and hunt for hi is known for certain,

Hibbard'still it

does Then" he finished, with a barely perceptible scornful sht to be done"

Six-Cross-Roads lay dark and steae

was silent, the saloon locked up, the roadway deserted, even by the pigs

The broken old buggy stood rotting in the le lean,