ogether
to put Captain Ussher under the sod, and also that the prisoner had
agreed to join the tenants in ridding the country of him; was the
former phrase, that of putting the Captain under the sod, used in the
prisoner's presence on the evening of the wedding?"

"There war a lot of thim phrases used--ridding the counthry--sodding
him--and all thim sort of disagreeable sayings; but I can't swear to
any one exactly at Mrs. Mehan's--thim's the sort of words."

"Very well. Now I think you told us that when the prisoner desired
you to take the dead body to the police at Carrick, he told you he
was going to some place: where did he say he was going to?"

"To Aughacashel."

"Where's Aughacashel?"

"It's a mountain behind Drumshambo."

"And did he tell you why he was going to Aughacashel?"

"That he mightn't be tuk, I s'pose."

"I don't want your supposition. Did the prisoner tell you why he was
going to Aughacashel?"

"There war some of the tinants there, I b'lieve, and he thought he'd
be safe may be."

"Did the prisoner tell you that he was going to Aughacashel because
he thought he'd be safe there?"

"I'll tell you how it war thin. We were jist talking together about
what he'd betther be doing, which was nathural, and he with the dead
body there, he'd been jist afther killing. Wid that, says he, 'Pat,'
says he, 'where's the stills mostly at work now?' 'Faith,' says I,
'I don't exactly be knowing;' for, yer honour, I niver turned a
penny that way myself--'but,' says I, 'sich a one'll tell you,' and
I mintioned one of the tinants; 'and where's he?' said the masther;
'why I heard tell,' says I, 'that he's in Aughacashel, but av you'll
go down to Drumleesh, you'll find out,' and wid that he went down the
road to Drumleesh, and I druv the body off to Carrick."

"That'll do," said Mr. Allewinde. "I've done with this witness, my
lord."

CHAPTER XXX.

THE PRISONER'S DEFENCE.

Mr. O'Malley then rose, but before he began to cross-examine the
witness, he addressed the judge.

"There's a witness in court, my lord, whom I shall have to examine by
and by on the defence, and I must request that he may be directed to
absent himself during my examination of the witness now in the chair.
It is material that he should not hear the answers which this witness
may give, I mean Mr. Hyacinth Keegan, my lord, who is sitting beneath
me."

Keegan was sitting on the bench immediately under that of the
barrister, among