Accept of this, and good-night
again." As he spoke he placed some money in her unreluctant hand, and
returned on his way home.
CHAPTER XIV. Shawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay
Shawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay in Mistake for his Brother
Shawn-na-Middogue, though uneducated, was a young man of no common
intellect. That he had been selected to head the outlaws, or rapparees,
of that day, was a sufficient proof of this. After parting from Caterine
Collins, on whom the severity of his language fell with such bitterness,
he began to reflect that he had acted with great indiscretion, to say
the least of it. He knew that if there was a woman in the barony who, if
she determined on it, could trace him to his most secret haunts, she was
that woman. He saw, too, that after she had left him, evidently in
deep indignation, she turned her steps towards Rathfillan House, most
probably with an intention of communicating to Harry Woodward the strong
determinations of vengeance which he had expressed against him. Here,
then, by want of temper and common policy, had he created two formidable
enemies against himself.
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