lor with any great admiration for his veracity, and his
opinion in this respect was strengthened when the witness added "that
by Garra, av his honor thought it'd be any use in life to Mr. Thady,
he'd swear as how he was asleep all the time; or for the matther of
that, that he was out along wid de gals dancing the livelong night."
It was with difficulty that Mr. Webb made him understand that he was
only to swear to what he believed to be the truth, and that if he
told a single lie in answer to the numerous questions which would be
asked him, he would only be endangering Mr. Macdermot's life.

Father John undertook the more difficult task of explaining to Feemy
what it was she was expected to do at the trial, and of making her
understand that her brother's life depended on her making an effort
to give her evidence in the court clearly and firmly. On reaching
Drumsna he was much distressed to find that she was no longer
at Mrs. McKeon's. For two days after the conversation which had
passed between that lady and her charge, in which she declared her
suspicions that Feemy was _enceinte_, the latter had made a great
effort to recover her health, or at any rate the appearance of
health. She left her bed earlier in the morning than she had ever
done for the last five months; she dressed herself with great care,
and--for alas, Mrs. McKeon's suspicion was but too true--fastened her
dress with a most dangerous determination to prove that the charge
was unfounded. Patiently she endured all the agonies which this
occasioned her during the first day and during the whole evening,
till the house was at rest and she was secure from being again
visited. On the next morning she went so far as to come down to
breakfast, and to undergo Tony's somewhat rough congratulation as to
her convalescence, without betraying her sufferings. After breakfast,
when he was gone out, she again opened the subject of her return
home, and begged Mrs. McKeon to allow her to have the car to return
to Ballycloran. Mrs. McKeon again put her off, telling her that it
would be necessary first to consult the doctor, and that he would
not be likely to call till the following day. In the afternoon Mrs.
McKeon, with Lyddy and Louey, went out for a drive, and as Feemy was
apparently so much better, they asked her to accompany them, but this
she declined.

"It's as well for her not to go out before the trial," whispered Mrs.
McKeon to her daughters. "Poor girl; she has