I name nobody at present; an' for that matther, I know nothin'.

Can't all the world tell you that Nell M'Cullum knows nothin'!" "_Ghe dhevin_, Nelly," said the waiter, "maybe Meehaul is in the house unknownst to me.

I'll try, any how, an' if he's to the fore, it won't be my fault or he'll see you." Nell, while the waiter went to inform Meehaul, took two ribbons out of her pocket, one white and the other black, both of which she folded into what would appear to a bystander to be a simple kind of knot.

When the innkeeper's son and the waiter returned to the hall, the former asked her what the nature of her business with him might be.

To this she made no reply, except by uttering the word husht! and pulling the ends, first of the white ribbon, and afterwards of the black.