CHAPTER XIX .-- Reilly's Disguise Penetrated.
-- Fergus Reilly is on the Trail of the Rapparee--He Escapes--Sir Robert begins to feel Confident of Success.
Lanigan, on passing the dining parlor, heard what he conceived to be loud and angry voices inside the room, and as the coast was clear he deliberately put his ear to the key-hole, which ear drank in the following conversation: "I say, Sir Robert, I'll shoot the villain.

Do not hold me.

My pistols are unloaded and loaded every day in the year; and ever since I transported that rebel priest I never go without them.

But are you sure, Sir Robert?
Is it not possible you may be mistaken?
I know you are a suspicious fellow; but still, as I said, you are, for that very reason, the more liable to be wrong.

But, if it is he, what's to be done, unless I shoot him ?" "Under the last Administration, sir, I could have answered your question; but you know that if you shoot him now you will be hanged.
All that's left for us is simply to effect this marriage the day after tomorrow; the documents are all ready, and in the course of to-morrow the license can be procured.