d inn of the town, attended by Jemmy Branigan. This was rendered
in some degree necessary, by the condition of his bad leg, and his
extraordinary devotion to convivial indulgence--a propensity to which he
gave full stretch during the social license of the grand jury dinners.
Now, the general opinion was, that Henderson always kept large sums of
money in the house--an opinion which we believe to have been correct,
and which seemed to have been confirmed by the fact, that on no occasion
were both father and son ever known to sleep out of the house at the
same time, to which we may also add another--viz., that the whole family
were well provided with fire arms, which were freshly primed and loaded
every night.

The Prophet, therefore, had so contrived it, that young Dick's design
upon Mave Sullivan, or in other words, the Prophet's own design upon
the money coffers of the Grange, should render his absence from home
necessary whilst his father was swilling at the assizes, by which
arrangement, added to others that will soon appear, the house must, to
a certain degree, be left unprotected, or altogether under the care
of dissolute servants, whose habits, caught from those of the
establishment, were remarkable for dissipation and neglect.

The Prophet, indeed, was naturally a plotter. It is not likely, however,
that he would ever have thought of projecting the robbery of the Grange,
had he not found himself, as he imagined, foiled in his designs upon
Mave Sullivan, by the instinctive honor and love of truth which shone
so brilliantly in the neglected character of his extraordinary daughter.
Having first entrapped her into a promise of secrecy--a promise which he
knew death itself would scarcely induce her to violate, he disclosed to
her the whole plan in the most plausible and mitigated language. Effort
after effort was made to work upon her principles, but in vain. Once
or twice, it is true, she entertained the matter for a time--but a
momentary deliberation soon raised her naturally noble and generous
spirit above the turpitude of so vile a project.

It was, then, in this state of things that the failure of the one, and
the lesser plan, through the incorruptible honor of his daughter, drove
him upon the larger and more tempting one of the burglary. In this
latter, he took unto himself as his principal accomplice, Red Rody
Duncan, whose anxiety to procure the driver's situation arose from the
necessity that existed, to hav