human
Oh, it's a queer kind of life he's led since then! He still has his cabin up in the Croghans--you may see it any day. Sometimes he's there and sometimes he isn't; but many a tale does be told about his doin's up yonder. There was one that watched him by night, and what do you think he seen?
gpt
He saw him puttin' stones into an iron pot, like this very one here that hangs on the hob for the potatoes.
human
Well, with that the gossoon that was spyin' on him took to his heels and never stopped till he was safe at home; and, of course, the whole countryside knew of it by the mornin'. And, then, the schoolmaster goes wanderin' round in the night when honest folks are in their beds; and kneelin' down, they tell me, by the water side, as if he was prayin' to the moon and stars or to the fishes. Now I ask you if that's fit conduct for a Christian man?
gpt
He may have his own reasons for all that, I suggested.
human
Men of learning and science do many strange things.
gpt
I'm afeard it's for no good he's actin' so, said Granny, in a cautious whisper.
human
Some will have it that he's worshippin' the devil; for how else could he get the gold and silver they say he has? He disappears now and again,--vanishes, as the story is, down into the ground or into some cave of the hills, and comes back with a power of money to bury somewhere; for he never spends it honestly like other folks.