h Mr. McKeon's evidence."

Father John immediately hurried into the room, where Mrs. McKeon had
been left with her charge; and his heart trembled within him as he
remembered the death-like look the poor girl had when he left her but
an hour since, and reflected that it was too probably to her aid that
Doctor Blake had been called.

And so it was. When he entered the room, round the door of which a
lot of frieze coats had crowded, but which was kept shut, he found
Feemy on the ground, with her head supported on Mrs. McKeon's lap,
and Blake kneeling beside her, endeavouring to pour something into
her mouth. There was another woman standing in the room, and an
apothecary, whom the doctor had sent for; but Father John was soon
made to understand that medical skill could avail but little,
and that all the aid which Feemy could now receive from her
fellow-creatures was to come from him.

To describe the scene which immediately followed would be to treat so
sacred a subject much too lightly. The priest, however, found that
neither life nor reason was extinct; she acknowledged the symbol of
salvation in which she trusted, and received that absolution from her
sins which her church considers necessary. Who can say how deeply she
had repented of her misdeeds during the many hours of silent agony
which she had endured!

Her arm was stretched out from her body, and her hand was clasped
tightly in that of Mrs. McKeon's. The moment before she drew her
final breath, she felt and tried to return the pressure; she made one
great struggle to speak. "Myles" was the single word which her lips
had strength to form; and with that last effort poor Feemy died.

In the meantime McKeon had given his evidence in the court and had
left the table--Mr. Allewinde having declined to cross-examine either
him or Father John. There was then a pause of some little duration
in court, during which Mr. O'Malley, addressing the judge, said that
Miss Macdermot, the witness now about to be brought forward, was
unfortunately in a very weak state of health, so much so, that had
her evidence not been essential to her brother, he should be most
unwilling to have troubled her; he then apologised for the delay, and
asked for and obtained permission for Mrs. McKeon to be on the table
and repeat the answers of the witness to the jury: the judge merely
premising that it would be necessary that that lady should be sworn
to repeat the true answers.

There was stil