Of the two, however, Ginty's the worst, I think; and I often believe, myself, that she deals with the devil; but that, I suppose, is bekaise she's sometimes not right in her head still." "If she doesn't dale with the devil, the devil dales with her at any rate," replied the other.

"They'll be apt to gain their point, Tom and she." "Tom, I know, is just as bitther as she is," observed the old man, "and Ginty, by her promises as to what she'll do for him, has turned his heart altogether to stone; and yet I know a man that's bittherer against the black fellow than either o' them.

She only thinks of the luck that's before her; but, afther all, Tom acts more from hatred to him than from Ginty's promises.

He has no bad feelin' against the young man himself; but it's the others he's bent on punishing.

God direct myself, I wish at any rate that I never had act or hand in it.