e which he was
about to utter; and the old man trembled like a frightened child upon
his seat, and sat silent with his eye fixed on the priest.

Mary had not been present at this interview; Father John, however,
now found it necessary to call her, and to commission her if possible
to make the father understand that he had been bereaved of his
daughter. Poor Mary was dreadfully distressed herself, and for a long
time sat sobbing and weeping. But by degrees she recovered her tone,
and commenced the duty which Father John had enjoined her to perform;
but nothing could convince Larry of Feemy's death; he felt assured
that they were all trying to deceive him, and that Feemy and her
lover had now deserted him as well as Thady.

When Father John returned to Carrick, anxious, yet fearing to hear
the verdict, he found that the jury had not yet agreed. Even this
was some comfort, for it made it evident that there was doubt on the
subject; and surely, thought he, if a man doubts on such a subject as
this, he must ultimately lean to the side of mercy. He remained with
Tony McKeon in court till about eight, when they went to the hotel
and got their dinner--for they would not leave the town till the jury
were locked up for the night.

Soon afterwards Webb joined them, and the three sat together till
eleven o'clock, when it was signified to them that the judge
would not receive the verdict that night; and that the jury were,
therefore, again to be locked up. Webb then went home, and the priest
and his friend both returned to Drumsna to sleep.

Thady had remained in the dock that he might be ready to hear the
verdict, till the judge left the bench. He was then conducted back
into the prison, and it was so late that the prison regulations
did not allow him to see any friend or visitor; he was, therefore,
debarred from the comfort which a few kind words from Father John
would have afforded him. After he had heard the news of his sister's
death he never once raised himself from the position into which he
almost fell rather than sunk. During the whole of the long afternoon
he remained crouched down in one corner of the benches within the
dock. When the judge commenced his charge to the jury, he had once
attempted to rise; but he felt that he could no longer endure the
gaze of those around him, and he remained on his seat till he was
taken back to gaol.

Father John and McKeon agreed that the cause of Feemy's death should
not be told