"How can you be such an infernal fool as to suppose that anything connected with business could happen at this time in the morning?
Do you know the first milestone on the road to Garvan ?" "Yes, sir." "Very well.

Go to the milestone, and take care that nobody sees you when you get there.

Look at the back of the stone.

If you discover an Object which appears to have been left in that situation on the ground, bring it to me; and don't forget that the most impatient man in all Ireland is waiting for you." Not a word of explanation followed these extraordinary instructions.
The head clerk set forth on his errand, with his mind dwelling on the national tendencies to conspiracy and assassination.

His employer was not a popular person.