er, constantly watching and peeping into the yard and lawn from
time to time, as if he expected to see somebody. At length he got tip
and was about to go, when he said to Letty Lenehan:--"Ah, thin, Letty,
afore I go I'd give a trifle that Miss Julia 'ud see a bracelet I got
since I was here last; divil sich a beauty ever was seen."

"Very well, Cannie, I'll tell her if you wish."

"Then, Letty, may it rain honeycombs an you, an' do. I'll go round to
the hall-door, 'say, and she can look at them there; an' see, Letty, say
the sorra foot I'll go from the place till she sees it: that it'll be
worth her while; and that if she knew how I got it, she'd fly--if she
had wings--to get a glimpse of it."

He had not been more than a minute or two at the hall-door when Julia,
struck by the earnestness of the man's language, which lost nothing in
the transmission, made her appearance.

"Well now, Cannie," said she, "what wonderful matter is this you have
got to show me?"

"Here it is, Miss Julia," said he, in his usual jocular and somewhat
loud voice, "here it is, I'll have it in a minute--listed, Miss Julia,"
he added, in a solemn and impressive undertone: "what I'm goin' to
say is more to you than aither life or death. Don't go out by
yourself--don't go at all out early in the morning or late in the
evenin'."

"Why so, Cannie?" she asked.

"Why, miss, it came to me by accident only; but the truth is there's a
plot laid, it seems, to carry you off to the mountains."

"By whom, Cannie?"

"That's the very thing, miss, that I don't know; but a strange man met
me on my way here this mornin' and tould me that he was a friend to your
father--who was wanst a friend to him--and that, if I'd see you, to put
you on your guard against goin' either to the poor or sick at the hours
I spoke of; and he bid me say, too, that there's bad work and thraichery
about you--and by no manner o' means to go any distance from your
father's house--ay, thraichery, an from them you'd never think o'
suspectin' for it. Now, miss, keep this counsel to yourself, and
don't say it was I that tould you, but as you love a fair name and an
unblemished character, act upon it. Dang me," he added, "but I had like
to forget--if any message--I was bid to tell you--should come from Widow
Lynch's, sayin' that her daughter's dyin' and wishes to see you, and
that it's afther dusk it'll come--if it does come--well, if any sich
message is sent to you, don't go--nor don