“Daisy, Daisy, gimme your answer, do; For I’m half crazy all for the love of you. ’Twon’t be a stylish marriage, For we can’t afford a carriage, But you’ll look nate upon the sate Of a bicycle built for two.” _OLD DEEGAN, O’HAGAN, PATRICK and MRS. DEEGAN come in._ PATRICK. Here’s the tramp vagabone now.... We’ll get the saddle on the right horse, by Mozes! DEEGAN. Silence, sir, and let Mr. O’Hagan conduct the proceedings. _The table is brought to the centre and OLD DEEGAN and O’HAGAN sit down. The others stand._ O’HAGAN [_opens his attaché_]. Twyning, we’ve proof that you stole the money and papers from Miss Mullan’s bag. PAUL [_leans on the shovel_]. It’s a blessid thing I haven’t a weak heart, Mr. O’Hagan, or I’d fall dead with apoplexy. O’HAGAN. We’re not here to mince matters. You took the money, and we can prove it. PAUL. If you can’t prove it, ’twill be a black day for you. But go on. Prove it. O’HAGAN. Patrick Deegan, what are you prepared to swear? PATRICK [_excited_]. I can swear Paul Twyning left me in the bar, and went into the snug, where my father and Daisy Mullan was sleeping, and rifled the bag and slipt out the side dure. PAUL. Was that the reason yourself staggered like a drunk cock and your wife fainted on the flure, when the whillabillo went up that the money was stolen? O’HAGAN. Patrick has made a clean breast of it. He admits having examined the bag, as a precautionary measure, but found it empty. DEEGAN. Patrick and his wife are not guilty. The sum was too large for them. Neither of them is honest, but they wouldn’t have the nerve to steal six hundred pounds. PATRICK [_with uplifted hand_]. May I fall dead if I lie! The bag was empty. PAUL. Your intention was good, Patrick. Your father may think you’re not bold enough to risk a big sum, but I think your father is mistaken. The man who would put in his hand would take out the goods. PATRICK. You took the money, Twyning! And I thought you were an honest man--after all them speeches you made. PAUL. So I was--a paragon of virtue--till I entered your opium-den. O’HAGAN. This is all beside the point.... You were the only person, Twyning, that actually saw the roll of money. Miss Mullan gave you a pound-note, and put the rest in her bag. Is that right? PAUL. Perfectly correct. I’d be long sorry to deny receipt of a gift. O’HAGAN. And you saw the roll of notes in her hand? PAUL. Thank my God I’m not blind. I saw the rowl distinctly, and it as thick as my arm. O’HAGAN. And you meant to catch the first train to Dublin, did you not?