for that purpose; this has been proved--but there are
circumstances beyond this on which it is essentially necessary that
you should have evidence, and this evidence can only be given by the
young lady herself. I shall therefore have to bring her before you.
When my learned friend told you that he would not call upon her, nor
question her unless placed in that chair by me, he forgot his usual
candour, and assumed to himself credit for humanity to which he has
no title. He himself has nothing to learn from her, as he will prove
to you if he attempts to cross-examine her. Moreover, he was as fully
aware as I am myself, that the prisoner must rely on her alone for
anything like a true account of the affray.

"The brother and the sister are the only living witnesses of that
scene. He has within him that high consciousness of innocence and
rectitude of intention which has enabled him to bear his sufferings,
his imprisonment, and the misery of his position, with a fortitude
which I not only admire, but envy. But that can avail nothing with
you; from the sister's lips you must hear the only account which you
can receive, and if we find that she has been unable to recall the
dreadful circumstances of that night, that fact will bear me out in
the history of the occurrence which I am now going to give you."

Mr. O'Malley then gave as exact an account of the occurrence as he
had been able to collect from Thady, from Feemy's evidence before the
coroner, and from such words as Mrs. McKeon had been able to extract
from Feemy on the subject. He then continued,

"When the prisoner struck Ussher, he had come to the knowledge of
what the burden was which this man was dragging, solely from the
words which the man had used. Miss Macdermot was lying senseless in
his arms, and, supporting her by her waist, he was forcing her down
the avenue. The words he used were, 'This is damned nonsense,--you
must come now.' Then the brother perceived the fate to which this man
was--not alluring--but forcing his sister. At that moment--and it was
the only one in which the prisoner had to judge of the circumstances
of the case--she was not in the act of eloping willingly; she had
seen her brother's form, and had refused, or been unable, to rise
from the timber on which she was seated. She was forced from thence
by this man, whose death protects him from the language in which his
name would otherwise be mentioned. She fainted in his arms, and only
came t