' heart."

As he disappeared at the door, Hycy rushed after him, exclaiming,
"Father, listen to me--don't go yet till you hear my defence. I will go
and fetch him back," he exclaimed--"he must hear what I have to say for
myself."

He overtook his father at the bottom of the hall steps. "Give me a
hundred pounds," said he, "and you will never see my face again."

"There is two hundre'," said his father; "I expected this. Your mother
confessed all to me this mornin', bekaise she knew it would come out
here, I suppose. Go now, for undher my roof you'll never come again. If
you can--reform your life--an' live at all events, as if there was a God
above you. Before you go answer me;--what made you bring in Bat Hogan
to rob me?"

"Simply," replied his son, "because I wished to make him and them feel
that I had them in my power--and now you have it."

[Illustration: PAGE 635-- Hycy received the money, set spurs to his horse]

Hycy received the money, set spurs to his horse, and was out of sight in
a moment--"Ah!" exclaimed the old man, with bitterness of soul, "what
mightn't he be if his weak and foolish mother hadn't taken it into her
head to make a gentleman of him! But now she reaps as she sowed. She's
punished--an' that's enough."--And thus does Hycy the accomplished make
his exit from our humble stage.

"Gintlemen," said Finigan, "now that the accomplished Mr. Hycy is
disposed of, I beg to state, that it will be productive of much public
good to the country to expatriate these three virtuous worthies, _qui
nomine gaudent_ Hogan--and the more so as it can be done on clear legal
grounds. They are a principal means of driving this respectable young
man, Bryan M'Mahon, and his father's family, out of the land of their
birth; and there will be something extremely appropriate--and indicative
besides of condign and retributive punishment--in sending them on their
travels at his Majesty's expense. I am here, in connection with others,
to furnish you with the necessary proof against them; and I am of
opinion that the sooner they are sent upon a voyage of discovery it will
be so much the better for the rejoicing neighborhood they will leave
behind them."

The hint was immediately taken with respect to them and Vincent, all
of whom had been engaged in coming under Hycy's auspices--they were
apprehended and imprisoned, the chief evidence against them being Teddy
Phats, Peety Dhu, and Finigan, who for once became a stag, as he