Why has he let her alone all these years ?" The speech was grimly dramatic.

"Why, just because, first place, I believe another woman had the upper hand of him; second place, when he married madame it was the land and money her father had to leave her that made him make that bargain.

He hadn't that in him that would make him care for a white slip of a girl as she was then, and, any way, he knew that the girl and the money would keep till he was sick of roving.

It's as nasty a trick as could be that he's served her, playing dead dog all these years, and coming to catch her unawares.

I tell ye the main thing he has on his mind is revenge for the letters she wrote him when she first got word of his tricks, and then, too, he's coming back to carouse on her money and the money she's made on his father's land, that he niver looked to himself." O'Shea stalked through the small dark rooms and went out, closing the outer door gently behind him.