The Snake's Pass
The Gombeen Man

The Secrets of the Bog

On Knocknacar

Confidences

Vanished

A Visit to Joyce

My New Property

In the Cliff Fields

Un Mauvais Quart d’Heure

Bog-Fishing and Schooling

Murdock’s Wooing

A Trip to Paris

A Midnight Treasure Hunt

A Grim Warning

The Catastrophe

The Fulfilment

The Snake’s Pass.

The Snake’s Pass.

CHAPTER I. A SUDDEN STORM.

Between two great mountains of grey and green, as the rock cropped out between the tufts of emerald verdure, the valley, almost as narrow as a gorge, ran due west towards the sea. There was just room for the roadway, half cut in the rock, beside the narrow strip of dark lake of seemingly unfathomable depth that lay far below between perpendicular walls of frowning rock. As the valley opened, the land dipped steeply, and the 
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