Part 24 (2/2)
”No, doctor If you knew th of ht”
”They will start another paper and fight you”
”Let theht,” replied Denis ”Someone whom I can hit--hard!”
”And what if I withdraw my capital?”
”You won't do that, doctor,” replied Denis, with a quiet smile ”I know you”
”Well, Quirk, I'll tell you what I think of you--a clever, Quixotic fool But I will stand by you to the end I a pleases e of hard blows”
The two men shook hands in silence, and Dr Marsh went out to find Father Healy waiting for him
”We are a pair of idiots, you and I,” said the doctor ”We ought to unite in hooting Denis Quirk out of Grey Town, but we shall fight for hily to be hopelessly wicked,” he added, after a pause
”Then you and I are not altogether bad,” laughed the priest
They walked in silence to the doctor's gate
”Won't you coood-bye
”No, thank you It is a strange thing I should have received the Bishop's letter to-day,” said Father Healy, reflectively
Dr Marsh could not grasp theof this remark, so he refrained from comment on it
”The Bishop wishes me to take a six months' holiday,” continued the priest
”You have earned it by hard work A estion Take a rest before you die suddenly,” said the doctor
”And he suggests that I return to the old home in County Cork,” added Father Healy
”Naturally Where would you go but to Ireland?”
”Why not Areat country, and cousins of ht be I would find a cousin in Goldenvale itself”
”Goldenvale! Father Healy, you are a strange man, a many-sided man, but I don't think you are the best fitted person I would select to be discovering other men's secrets”
”Denis Quirk won't help himself I intend to help hiuilty?”
”No man need know but that I went to Cork, after all But so tells me I shall find him innocent”
”I ao with you, for you deserve it; and if you require money----,” said Dr Marsh
”Not one penny I have a small income of my own, inherited froo to the Finns, in Brunswick
The change will do her good And no one need know but that I am in Cork”