We met you at the station to-day in order to warn you to go straight home again." "Really!" said the judge.

"I travelled down from London with a Member of Parliament last night, and he gave me a description of the state of the country which bears out what you say.

He mentioned anarchy and conspiracy as being rampant--or else rife; I forget for the moment which word he used.

He said that the west of Ireland lay at the mercy of an organised system of terrorism, and that--" "That must have been a Unionist," said Meldon.
"Damned lies," said O'Donoghue.
"He was a Unionist," said the judge.

"But I met another man in the steamer, also an M.P., who said that, owing to the beneficent action of the Congested Districts Board, Connacht was rapidly becoming a happy and contented part of the empire; that the sympathy with Irish ideas displayed by the present Government was winning the hearts and affections of the people, and--" "That," said Meldon, "must have been a Nationalist." "More damned lies," said Dr.O'Donoghue.
"And now," said the judge, "I meet you two gentlemen, one of you a Nationalist and the other a Unionist--" "Don't call me that," said Meldon; "I'm non-political.