_Mary Cushin:_ A man that was hanged! O Denis, was it they that made an end of you and not the great God at all? His curse and my own curse upon them that did not let you die on the pillow! The curse of God be fulfilled that was on them before they were born! My curse upon them that brought harm on you, and on Terry Fury that fired the shot!
_Mary Cahel:_ (_Standing up._) And the other boys, did they hang them along with him, Terry Fury and Pat Ruane that were brought from Daire-caol?
_Gatekeeper:_ They did not, but set them free twelve hours ago. It is likely you may have passed them in the night time.
_Mary Cushin:_ Set free is it, and Denis made an end of? What justice is there in the world at all?
_Gatekeeper:_ He was taken near the house. They knew his footmark. There was no witness given against the rest worth while.
_Mary Cahel:_ Then the sergeant was lying and the people were lying when they said Denis Cahel had informed in the gaol?
_Gatekeeper:_ I have no time to be stopping here talking. The judge got no evidence and the law set them free.
_Mary Cahel:_ (_Holding out her hands._) Are there any people in the streets at all till I call on them to come hither? Did they ever hear in Galway such a thing to be done, a man to die for his neighbour?
Tell it out in the streets for the people to hear, Denis Cahel from Slieve Echtge is dead. It was Denis Cahel from Daire-caol that died in the place of his neighbour!
It is he was young and comely and strong, the best reaper and the best hurler. It was not a little thing for him to die, and he protecting his neighbour!
Gather up, Mary Cushin, the clothes for your child; they'll be wanted by this one and that one. The boys crossing the sea in the springtime will be craving a thread for a memory.
One word to the judge and Denis was free, they offered him all sorts of riches. They brought him drink in the gaol, and gold, to swear away the life of his neighbour!
Pat Ruane was no good friend to him at all, but a foolish, wild companion; it was Terry Fury knocked a gap in the wall and sent in the calves to our meadow.
Denis would not speak, he shut his mouth, he would never be an informer. It is no lie he would have said at all giving witness against Terry Fury.