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What did you do? Or what have you on hand? Or what is the cause of all this fuss?"
"I don't know in the world, Dermot. But I think there is one thing plain enough, and that is that I haven't found any money going astray. I suppose that if I had I wouldn't be coming here now in the hope of getting some leather on credit as I did before."
"Oh, indeed you shall, and welcome. How much do you want?"
"If I had as much as would make shoes for two it would be enough for me this time, and when those were sold and I had the money, I would pay you and take some more."
"You may as well take the more with you now at one carrying. Take a pound's worth."
CHAPTER V.
MYSTIFICATION.
Abbie.—Take care that the money didn't turn into little flat bits of slate, as Michael Redmond's money did.
Peg.—That's not what you said before, Abbie, but that Michael turned the bits of slate into money.
Abbie.—And so he did, too, but then the money turned into bits of slate again.
Nora.—Just hear her! Don't our ears remember your saying to us that he brought the money in to the woman, and that she looked at it, and
