"
"I remember when he hanged himself, very well," observed Lindsay, "but
d--n the syllable of the robbery and murder of the priest or any body
else ever I heard of till the present moment, although there was an
inquest held over himself. The man got low-spirited and depressed,
because his business failed him, or, rather, because he didn't attend
to it; and in one of these moods hanged himself; but by all accounts,
Bandy, if he hadn't done the deed for himself the hangman would have
done it for him. He was said, I think, to have been connected with some
of the outlaws, and to have been a bad boy altogether. I think it is now
near fifty years ago since he hanged himself."
"'Tis said, sir, that this account comes from one of his own relations;
but there's another account, sir, of the _Shan-dhinne-dhuv_ that I don't
believe a word of."
"Another--what is that, Bandy?"
"O, bedad, sir," replied Bandy, "it's more than I could venture to tell
you here."
"Come, come--out with it."
Mrs. Lindsay went over with an inflamed face, and having ordered him
to go about his business, slapped down the window with great violence,
giving poor Bandy a look of wrath and intimidation that sealed his
lips upon the subject of the other tradition he alluded to.
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