God forgive us! it's more careful we ought to be.' 'But, Father Moran, I don't----' 'Arrah then, will you cease your talking for one minute, and let me get a word in edgeways for your own good?
What was I saying?
Oh, I was just after telling you I hadn't got the money to help you.

But maybe I might manage to get it.

The man in the bank in Clifden knows me.

I borrowed a few pounds off him two years ago when the Cassidys' house and three more beside it got blown away in the big wind.

Father Joyce put his name on the back of the bill along with my own, and trouble enough I had to get him to do it, for he said I ought to put an appeal in the newspapers, and I'd get the money given to me.