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sat for half the night under the barrack- 

 windows, how is he to do it this time, 

 when not one of his men were within three 

 hundred yards of them ? A man fights at 

 odds with the whole feeling of the country 

 against him. Depend upon it he is off now 

 for good and all." 



" Well," said the Squire, " I cannot say 

 that I am at all sorry at this result ; for- 

 tunate would it be if Lynch law were always 

 as just and always as merciful. The inter- 

 loping fishery was a thing unjust in itself, 

 ruinous to the markets, destructive to the 

 prosperity of Ballyshannon " 



t( And not a little injurious to ourselves," 

 broke in the Captain. 



a Very true — we were sufferers along 

 with the mass. I am glad Hector has got 

 off himself scot free : it was a thing I did 

 not expect. He was a gallant fellow, and 

 did his duty for his employers like a man, 

 and in most parts of Ireland would have 

 been shot from behind a wall. However, 

 he is off now, and good luck to him." 



" Bon voyage a Napoleon." 



" Qu'il ne revienne en aucune saison." 



