"No, she don't know it; she's in the dark. There's the little lad
Mike will look after her. She won't do nothing until we go back."

"Oh, I did want to see the Banshee!"

"The Banshee may come or not," said the man; "but I have my message
to yez, and it is this: If you don't get Squire O'Shanaghgan to let
me keep my little bit of land, and to see that I aint evicted, why,
I'll--you're a bonny lass, you're as purty a young lady as I ever
set eyes on, but I'll drownd yez, deep down here in this hole. No
one will ever know; they'll think you has fallen and got drowned
without no help from me. Yes, I'll do it--yes, I will--unless you
promises that Squire O'Shanaghgan shan't evict me. If I go out, why,
you goes out first. Now, you'll do it; you'll swear that you'll do
it? You'll leave no stone unturned. You'll get 'em to leave me my
cabin where I was born, and the childer was born, and where the wife
died, or I'll drownd yez deep down here in the Banshee's hole.
Look!" said the man as the moon nickered on a deep pool of water;
"they say there is no bottom to it. Just one shlip, and over you
goes, and nobody will ever see Nora O'Shanaghgan again."

"I'm not going to be frightened; you wouldn't do it, Andy," said the
girl.

"Wouldn't I just? You think that I'd be afraid?"

"I don't think so. I am sure you are afraid of nothing."

"Then why shouldn't I do it?"