human
Well, my girls, you are busy here,
gpt
Oh, yes, busy! said Ada, who had put up her face to be kissed so as not to soil her brother's coat by touching it with her hands.
human
How is Rachel?
gpt
Rachel is pretty well, I believe. We will not talk of Rachel just at present.
human
Is anything wrong,
gpt
We will not talk about her, not now. What is all this that has happened here?
human
We are just boycotted, said Ada;
gpt
And you think that it's the best joke in the world?
human
Think it a joke!
gpt
Why we have to be up every morning at five o'clock, said Ada;
human
It is no joke, said Edith, very seriously.
gpt
Papa is broken-hearted about it. Your coming will be of the greatest comfort to us, if only because of the pair of hands you bring. And poor Flory!
human
How has it gone with Flory? he asked. Then Edith told the tale as it had to be told of Florian, and of what had happened because of the evidence he had given. He had come forward under the hands of Captain Yorke Clayton and repeated his whole story, giving it in testimony before the magistrates. He declared it all exactly as he had done before in the presence of his father and his sister and Captain Clayton. And he had sworn to it, and had had his deposition read to him. He was sharp enough, and understood well what he was doing. The other two men were brought up to support him,--the old man Terry and Con Heffernan. They of course had not been present at the examination of Flory, and were asked,--first one and then the other,--what they knew of the transactions of the afternoon on which the waters had been let in on the meadows of Ballintubber. They knew nothing at all, they said. They
gpt
whether they had been there on the occasion,
human
Yes; they knew that the waters had been in upon the meadows, and they believed that they were in again still. They didn't think that the meadows were of much good for this year. They didn't know who had done it,