He was even
more anxious to find out, if he could, why Meldon disliked the idea of
this particular judge paying a visit to Ballymoy. He recovered his
temper with an effort.
"I don't think," he said, "that he believed a word you said about the
drains."
"That's exactly what I'm complaining of. He ought to have believed us.
According to all the rules of evidence, no stronger testimony could
possibly have been offered than the statements of a clergyman and a
doctor, neither of whom had any personal interest in the condition of
the drains. Unless we'd brought a bottle of water out of Doyle's well,
and shown him the bacilli swimming about in it, I don't see what more
we could have done."
"I wish I knew," said O'Donoghue, "exactly why it is that you want to
keep Sir Gilbert out of Ballymoy. What harm is there for him to do if
he comes?"
"He won't do me any harm at all. In fact I shall be delighted to have
him there. He struck me as a very intelligent and highly-educated man.
You saw how he caught my point about 'Samson Agonistes' at once.
Neither you nor Doyle, nor for the matter of that the Major, would have
known in the least what I was talking about.
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