_Cooney:_ Did he say or not say there was a rich man came in? _Sibby:_ He did, surely. _Nestor:_ To make up a plan.... _Cooney:_ I know well you have made up a plan. _Nestor:_ To give it unknownst.... _Cooney:_ It is to keep it unknownst you are wanting! _Nestor:_ The way she would not suspect.... _Cooney:_ It is I myself suspect and have cause to suspect! Give me back my own ten pounds and I’ll be satisfied. _Nestor:_ What way can I give it back? _Cooney:_ The same way as you took it, in the palm of your hand. _Nestor:_ Sure it is paid away and spent.... _Cooney:_ If it is you’ll repay it! I know as well as if I was inside you you are striving to make me your prey! But I’ll sober you! It is into the Court I will drag you, and as far as the gaol! _Nestor:_ I tell you I gave it to the widow woman.... (_Mrs. Broderick comes in._) _Cooney:_ Let her say now did you. _Mrs. Broderick:_ What is it at all? What is happening? Joseph Nestor threatened by a tinker or a tramp! _Nestor:_ I would think better of his behaviour if he was a tinker or a tramp. _Mrs. Broderick:_ He has drink taken so. Isn’t drink the terrible tempter, a man to see flames and punishment upon the one side and drink upon the other, and to turn his face towards the drink! _Cooney:_ Will you stop your chat, Mary Broderick, till I will drag the truth out of this traitor? _Mrs. Broderick:_ Who is that calling me by my name? Och! Is it Michael Cooney is in it? Michael Cooney, my brother! O Michael, what will they think of you coming into the town and much like a rag on a stick would be scaring in the wheatfield through the day? _Cooney:_ (_Pointing at Nestor._) It was going up in the mill I destroyed myself, following the directions of that ruffian! _Mrs. Broderick:_ And what call has a man that has drink taken to go climbing up a loft in a mill? A crooked mind you had always, and that’s a sort of person drink doesn’t suit. _Cooney:_ I tell you I didn’t take a glass over a counter this ten year. _Mrs. Broderick:_ You would do well to go learn behaviour from Mr. Nestor. _Cooney:_ The man that has me plundered and robbed! Tell me this now, if you can tell it. Did you find any pound notes in “Old Moore’s Almanac”? _Mrs. Broderick:_ I did not to be sure, or in any other place. _Nestor:_ She came in at the door and I striving to put them into the book. _Cooney:_ Look are they in it now, and I will say he is not tricky, but honest. _Nestor:_ You needn’t be looking.... _Mrs. Broderick:_ (_Turning over the leaves._) Ne’er a thing at all in it but the things that will or will not happen, and the days of the changes of the moon. _Cooney:_ (_Seizing and shaking it._) Look at that now! (_To Nestor._) Will you believe me now telling you that you are a rogue? _Nestor:_ Will you listen to me, ma’am.... _Cooney:_ No, but listen to myself. I brought the money to you. _Nestor:_ If he did he wouldn’t trust you with it, ma’am. _Cooney:_ I intended it for your relief.