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ir6 GULEESH NA GUSS DHU.
our journey to Rome and to France ?. Never mind yet,
you clown, but you 11 pay us another time for this. Be-
lieve us you'll repent it."
" He'll have no good to get out of the young girl," said
the little man that was t alking to him in the palace be-
fore that, and as he said the word he moved over to her
and struck her a slap on the side of the head. " Now,''
says he, " she'll be without talk any more ; now, Guleesh,
what good will she be to you when she'll be dumb ? It's
time for us to go — but you'll remember us, Guleesh na
Guss Dhu ! "
When he said that he stretched out his two hands,
and before Guleesh was able to give an answer, he and
the rest of them were gone into the rath out of his sight,
and he saw them no more.
He turned to the young woman and said to her :
" Thanks be to God, they're gone. Would you not
sooner stay with me than with them ?". She gave him
no answer. "There's trouble and grief on her yet, said
Guleesh in his own mind, and he spoke to her again :
'I am afraid that you must spend this night in my
father's house, lady, and if there is anything that I can
do for you, tell me, and I'll be your servant."
The beautiful girl remained silent, but there were
tears in her eyes, and her face was white and red after
each other.
" Lady," said Guleesh, " tell me what you would like
me to do now. I never belonged at all to that lot of
sheehogues who carried you away with them. I am
the son of an honest farmer, and I went with them with-
out knowing it. If I'll be able to send you back to your
father I'll do it, and I pray you make any use of me
now that you may wish.''
He looked into her face, and he saw the mouth