G R A N I A
VOL. II.
By the same Author
———
HURRISH: a Study
IRELAND (Story of the Nations Series)
MAJOR LAWRENCE, F.L.S.
PLAIN FRANCES MOWBRAY, &c.
WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND
GRANIA
THE STORY OF AN ISLAND
BY THE
HON. EMILY LAWLESS
AUTHOR OF ‘HURRISH, A STUDY’
ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1892
[All rights reserved]
| PART III |
| CHAPTER I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI. |
| PART IV |
| CHAPTER I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. |
PART III
MAY TO AUGUST
CHAPTER I
Thus the weeks went on, one week after the other, all exactly alike, andno new light came to aid Grania in her investigations about the stolenturf. What was hardly less important, however, the depredationsthemselves ceased. From the night on which she had pursued the thiefthrough the gully and lost him at the mouth of it, no fresh inroads, sofar as she could discover, had been made in the stack, and, this beingthe case, she was content for the present to let the matter be. She hada kindly feeling{2} towards poor Pete Durane, and if he were the culpritwould have been sorry to have been forced to bring the guilt home tohim. If, on the other hand, it was Shan Daly—the only other person shecould think of as likely to be guilty—though she hated that miscreantas she hated no other person in the world, still, there was his wretchedwife to be thought of, and his equally wretched family. As well, too,hope to extract blood from flints as get any satisfaction orcompensation out of Shan Daly, and, as for the mere vindictive pleasureof punishment, the ties of kinship and acquaintanceship are far tooclosely drawn in so limited a community as Inishmaan for that sort ofpleasure to be often resorted to. If we were on visiting terms with thefamilies of our pick-pockets and burglars, those artists would be evenless interrupted in the exercise of their vocations than they are atpresent.{3}
Meanwhile the work of the year had to be gone on with. Grania wasfeedin