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A MIDNIGHT TREASURE HUNT 289
quite gone I knocked at the door, and Joyce came out
like a thunderbolt. —
" ' I've got ye now ye ruffian —he shouted ' what
'
' but by this time I
did ye mean to say to me daughter ?
stood in the light, and he recognized me.
" Hush ! ' I said, ' let me in quietly —and when I
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passed in we shut the door. Then I told them that I
had been out on the mountain, and had found Moynahan.
I told them both that they must not ask me any questions,
or let on to a soul that I had told them anything—that
much might depend on it—for I thought, Art, old chap,
that they had better not be mixed up in it, however the
matter might end. So we all three went out with a
lantern, and I brought them to where the old man was
asleep. We lifted him, and between us carried him
to the house ; Joyce and I undressed him and put him
in bed, between warm blankets. Then I came away
and went over to Mrs. Kelligan's, where I slept in a
chair before the fire.
" The next morning when I went up to Joyce's I
found that Moynahan was all right—that he hadn't
even got a cold, but that he remembered nothing what-
ever about his walking into the bog. He had even
expressed his wonder at seeing the state his clothes
were in. When I went into the village I found that
Murdock had been everywhere and had told every-
one of his fears about Moynahan. I said nothing of
his being safe, but tried quietly to arrange matters so
that I might be present when Murdock should set his