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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1701576" data-attributes="member: 4144">"I think he's in this very pub, doctor.  I think your friend over there is 'im.  I haven't seen the son in years, since we sent 'im off, but that feller looks to be about the right age, and 'e did say 'e had Kelly blood in 'im.  In any case, I'd imagine the boy's too young to have taken up any profession yet, 'e's in university mostlike.""Suggestions, yes.  Some of the more superstitious folk in town, the old folks who remember such things, they said it was the tylwydd teg, the Fair Folk, the little people in the woods.  They said the Kellys'd trespassed on their land and wrecked their stones, and they were takin' revenge on 'em.  Personally, I place about as much stock in that as I'm sure you gents do.  Me, I think Mary just ran afoul of some highwaymen.  And Mary surely wasn't in any state to say who it was.  She was hysterical, and remained so until she fled."</blockquote>