Close to this there was a hand-gate leading into Dillsborough wood, and standing in the gateway was a man.

The Senator thought that this might not improbably be Goarly himself, and asked the question, "Might your name be Mr.Goarly, sir ?" "Me Goarly!" said the man in infinite disgust.

"I ain't nothing of the kind,--and you knows it." That the man should have been annoyed at being taken for Goarly,--that man being Bean the gamekeeper who would willingly have hung Goarly if he could, and would have thought it quite proper that a law should be now passed for hanging him at once,--was natural enough.

But why he should have told the Senator that the Senator knew he was not Goarly it might be difficult to explain.

He probably at once regarded the Senator as an enemy, as a man on the other side, and therefore as a cunning knave who would be sure to come creeping about on false pretences.