ster's life, were he
to be affected by the misery which he is so constantly obliged to
witness in a criminal court. On this occasion, however, the anxiety
which Mr. O'Malley had expressed when addressing the jury had not
been feigned, and the doubt which he felt as to the fate of his
client lay heavy on him. He was aware that he had failed in shaking
Brady's testimony, and he feared that in spite of all he had done to
prove the depravity of that man's character, the jury would be too
much inclined to believe him.

It had been decided that Feemy was not to be brought into Carrick
from Drumsna till such time as Mr. O'Malley sent out word that she
would be required; and when he found how late it was before he began
his speech, he had told Father John in court that she would not be
wanted on that day. She had, therefore, been left tranquilly at Mrs.
McKeon's, who had fetched her to her own house from Ballycloran on
the morning of the trial.

When Larry Macdermot saw the car at the door, in which Feemy was to
go away, he was dreadfully wrath. He first of all declared that his
daughter should not be taken away to Mr. Keegan's--that his own son
had deserted him and tried to sell the estate, and that now they
meant to rob him of his daughter! And he wept like a child, when he
was told that unless she went of her own accord, the house would be
broken open, and she would be taken away by force. It was in vain
that Mary McGovery endeavoured to make him understand that Feemy's
presence was necessary in Carrick, and that she had to appear as a
witness at her brother's trial.

Whenever Thady's trial was spoken of;--and Mary, by continually
recurring to the subject, had made the old man at last comprehend
that his son was to be tried;--but whenever it was spoken of now,
he merely expressed his approbation, and a wish that Thady might
be punished, for making friends with such a reptile as Keegan--for
deserting his father, and planning to cheat him out of his house and
his property. Mary took great pains to set him right, and bellowed
into his ear as if he were deaf instead of stupid, twenty times
a day, that Thady was to be tried for Ussher's death; but Larry
couldn't be got to remember that Ussher was dead, and would
continually ask his daughter when her lover was coming back to live
with them, and defend them and the property against the machinations
of Keegan and her brother.

All the Thursday Feemy remained at Drumsna, every