He was not well pleased to find himself too late for the fighting, and only in time to tend a couple of bruised men, and carry off the body of another.

But for this duty he might at least have given chase to the fugitives, and gained a little credit to himself by their capture.

As it was, my lady, who in her husband's absence, and then only, spoke with his authority, would hear of no such attempt, and ordered the immediate removal of the body to Fahan, pending the necessary inquiry, while two of the soldiers were to be left in the house to protect it and see to the wounded.
As for these, a little whisky and bandaging soon set them right; and when next morning his honour, who had already been met by the news of the night's adventure, reached home, he was able to send them off to jail in the custody of the soldiers.
"There'll be trouble enough to us out of all this," said he to me that day, as we followed to the court of inquiry.

"I wish to God I had left you where I found you." That was the least I expected of his honour.

His gratitude counted for very little beside the look Miss Kit had given me the night before, when the danger was yet to come..