They were the ghosts of murderers, the figures of marshals who had received their death-wound on battlefields far away over the sea. The last words of Davin's story sang in his memory and the figure of the woman in the story stood forth reflected in other figures of the peasant women whom he had seen standing in the doorways at Clane as the college cars drove by, as a type of her race and of his own, a bat-like soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness and, through the eyes and voice and gesture of a woman without guile, calling the stranger to her bed. A second shrill whistle, prolonged angrily, brought one of the girls to the foot of the staircase. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity.
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