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told Michael time out of mind he ought to have it 

 levelled ; but much use there is in talking to him 

 and him mth his head full of horses. Will you 

 take a hold of my arm? " 



" No thanks; I can get on quite well alone." 



" Well, step careful. Musha! but I was nearly 

 down there myseK. Do you know the name they 

 give this crack in the cHffs? " 



" No." 



" It's the Devil's Keyhole." 



" W\i^ do they call it that? " 



" Why? Faith, you'll know that when you 

 hear the wind blowing through it in winter. It 

 screeches so you can hear it at Drumboyne. Do 

 you know that I hve at Drumboyne? " 



" That's the village between here and Cloyne? " 



" That's it. But do you know where I Hve in 

 Drumboyne? " 

 JNo. 



" WeU, now, by any chance, did you see a 

 bungalow on the right before you left Drumboyne, 

 as you were driving here that day on the car with 

 the young chap — Mr What's-his-name? " 



" Dashwood. Yes, I did see a bungalow." 



" That's mine," said Mr Giveen, with a sigh. 

 " As nice a house as there is in the country, if it 

 wasn't that I was all alone in it." 



" Don't you keep a servant? " 



" A servant ! Sure, of course I keep a servant 

 — ^two. But it wasn't a servant I was meaning. 

 Shall I tell you what I was meaning? " 



