CHAPTER XIV .-- Reilly takes Service with Squire Folliard.
Reilly led a melancholy life after the departure of the pious bishop.

A week, however, had elapsed, and he felt as if it had been half a year.
His anxiety, however, either to see or hear from his _Cooleen Bawn_ completely overcame him, and he resolved, at all events, to write to her; in the meantime, how was he to do this?
There was no letter-paper in the farmer's house, nor any to be procured within miles, and, under these circumstances, he resolved to pay a visit to Mr.Brown.After some trouble he was admitted to the presence of that gentleman, who could scarcely satisfy himself of his identity; but, at length, he felt assured, and asked him into the study.
"My dear Reilly," said he, "I think you are infatuated.

I thought you had been out of the country long before this.

Why, in heaven's name, do you remain in Ireland, when you know the difficulty of escape?
I have had, since I saw you last, two or three domiciliary visits from Whitecraft and his men, who searched my whole house and premises in a spirit of insolence that was, most indelicate and offensive.

Hastings and I have sent a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant, signed by some of the most respectable Protestant gentry in the, country, in which we stated his wanton tyranny as well as his oppression of his Majesty's subjects--harmless and loyal men, and whom he pursues with unsatiable vengeance, merely because they are Roman Catholics.