Last of the Ardea Sullivans. In this year a commisioned English genealogist named Beltz visits an isolated cottage in the Bearra mountains seeking information on the dispossed Sullivans of Ardea. An old man refuses to admit him to his humble cottage but the next day by agreement meets the Englishman by appointment at the site of the crumbled ruins of the castle of Ardea. There Betz finds the old man assembled with the last of the family and holding in his arms the mouldering remains of parchments charting the history of various land grants to the Sullivans of Ardea.