CHAPTER V .-- The Plot and the Victims.
Sir Robert, on entering the room along with the squire, found the _Cooleen Bawn_ at the spinnet.

Taking his place at the end of it, so as that he could, gain a full view of her countenance, he thought he could observe her complexion considerably heightened in color, and from her his glance was directed to Reilly.

The squire, on the other hand, sat dull, silent, and unsociable, unless when addressing himself to the baronet, and immediately his genial manner returned to him.
With his usual impetuosity, however, when laboring under what he supposed to be a sense of injury, he soon brought matters to a crisis.
"Sir Robert," said he, "are the Papists quiet now ?" "They are quiet, sir," replied the other, "because they dare not be otherwise." "By the great Deliverer, that saved us from Pope and Popery, brass money and wooden shoes, I think the country will never be quiet till they are banished out of it." "Indeed, Mr.Folliard, I agree with you." "And so do I, Sir Robert," said Reilly.

"I wish from my soul there was not a Papist, as you call them, in this unfortunate country! In any other country beyond the bounds of the British dominions they could enjoy freedom.

But I wish it for another reason, gentlemen; if they were gone, you would then be taught to your cost the value of your estates and the source of your incomes.