As for your time o' life and mine, Polly, you know that age puts it out of our power ever to be much the betther one way or the other, even if Ginty does succeed in her devilry.

Very few years now will see us both in our graves, and I don't know but it's safer to lave this world with an aisy conscience, than to face God with the guilt of sich a black saicret as that upon us." "Well, but haven't you promised them not to tell ?" "I have--an' only that I take sich delight in waitin' to see the black scoundrel punished till his heart 'll burst--I think I'd come out with it.

That's one raison; and the other is, that I'm afraid of the consequences.

The law's a dangerous customer to get one in its crushes, an' who can tell how we'd be dealt with ?" "Troth, an' that's true enough," she replied.
"And when I promised poor Edward on his death-bed," proceeded the old man, "I made him give me a sartin time; an' I did this in ordher to allow Ginty an opportunity of tryin' her luck.

If she does not manage her point within that time, I'll fulfil my promise to the dyin' man." "But, why," she asked, "did he make you promise to do it when he could--ay, but I forgot.