The song "Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff", written in 1912 by Percy French, is featured at the closing of the story.

A train pulls up to the Dunfaill station in County Kerry, where Paddy Morrisey announces there will be "a minute's wait".

Mrs. Falsey chats with her old friend Barney Domigan, while her niece Mary Ann MacMahon becomes acquainted with his son Christy.

Mrs. Falsey persuades him to change his mind by informing him that the U.S. Army has awarded Mary Ann $10,000 for her father's death in battle.

Finally, the bar receives a phone call asking that the train add on another car needed to accommodate a hurling team whose bus has broken down nearby after a match.

Sean Curran awaits his execution in Galway prison by the British during the "Black and Tan War".