d the lawyer, looking hastily up from the
papers and documents he had been perusing.

"He is asleep, and like enough to continue so," replied the other,
slowly, while he sank down into an arm-chair, and gave himself up to
deep reflection.

"I have been thinking a good deal over what you have told me,"
said Crowther, "and I own I see the very gravest objections to his
surrendering himself."

"My own opinion!" rejoined Fagan, curtly.

"Even if it were an ordinary duel, with all the accustomed formalities
of time, place, and witnesses, the temper of the public mind is just
now in a critical state on these topics; MacNamara's death and that
unfortunate affair at Kells have made a deep impression. I'd not trust
too much to such dispositions. Besides, the chances are they would not
admit him to bail, so that he 'd have to pass three, nearly four, months
in Newgate before he could be brought to trial."

"He'd not live through the imprisonment. It would break his heart, if it
did not kill him otherwise."

"By no means unlikely."

"I know him well, and I am convinced he 'd not survive it. Why, the very
thought of the accusation, the bare idea that he could be arraigned as
a criminal, so overcame him here this morning that he staggered back and
sunk into that chair, half fainting."

"He thinks that he was not known at that hotel where he stopped?"

"He is quite confident of that; the manner of the waiters towards him
convinces him that he was not recognized."

"Nor has he spoken with any one since his arrival, except yourself?"

"Not one, save the hackney carman, who evidently did not know him."

"He left home, you say, without a servant?"

"Yes! he merely said that he was going over for a day or two, to the
mines, and would be back by the end of the week. But, latterly, he has
often absented himself in this fashion; and, having spoken of visiting
one place, has changed his mind and gone to another, in an opposite
direction."

"Who has seen him since he arrived here?"

"No one but myself and Raper."

"Ah! Raper has seen him?"

"That matters but little. Joe has forgotten all about it already, or,
if he has not, I have but to say that it was a mistake, for him to
fancy that it was so. You shall see, if you like, that he will not even
hesitate the moment I tell him the thing is so."

"It only remains, then, to determine where he should go,--I mean Carew;
for although any locality would serve in one respect, we