But the maid had deceived us.

The Mass was fixed for eleven, and I suspect her of being a Protestant in disguise.
On the way back we met Mr.Burke, the resident magistrate.

He has a neat house here, with a garden, and had come over from Dunfanaghy to see his wife.

He meant to return before dark.

The country was quiet enough, he said; but there were some troublesome fellows about, keeping up the excitement over the arrest at Father M'Fadden's trial of Father Stephens--a young priest recently from Liverpool, who has become the curate of quite another Father M'Fadden--the parish priest of Falcarragh, and is giving his local superior a great deal of trouble by his activity in connection with the "Plan of Campaign." Mr.Wybrants Olphert of Ballyconnell, the chief landlord of Falcarragh, has been "boycotted," on suspicion of promoting the arrest of the two priests.
Five policemen have been put into his house.