to keep Rody out of
danger, both for that worthy individual's sake and his own. Rody, We
say, looked at him; and of a certainty it must be admitted, that the
physiognomy of our friend, the Seer, during that whole day, was one
from which no very high opinion of his integrity or good faith could be
drawn.

"It's a very sthrange thing," replied Rody, in a tone of thought and
reflection, "how Charley Hanlon came to know of this matther at all."

"He never heard a word of it," replied Donnel, "barrin' from yourself."

"From me!" replied Rody, indignantly; "what do you mane by that?"

"Why, when you went to sound him," said Donnel, "you let too much out;
and Charley was too cute not to see what you wor at."

"All _feathalagh_ an' nonsense," replied Eody, who, by the way,
entertained a very high opinion of his own sagacity; "no mortal could
suspect that there was a plot to rob the house from what I said; but
hould," he added, slapping his knee, as if he had made a discovery, "_ma
chorp an' dioul_, but I have it all."

"What is it?" said the Prophet, calmly.

"You tould the matther to Sarah, an' she, by coorse, tould it to Charley
Hanlon, that she tells everything to."

"No such thing," replied the other. "Sarah knows nothing about the
robbery that's to go on to-night at the Grange, but she did about the
plan upon Mave Sullivan, and promised to help us in it, as I tould you
before."

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"Well, at any rate," replied Duncan, "I'll have nothing to do with this
robbery--devil a thing; but I'll make a bargain wid you--if you manage
the Grange business, I'll lend a hand in Mave Sullivan's affair."

The Prophet looked at him, fastening his dark piercing eyes-upon his
face--

"I see," he proceeded, "you're suspicious or you're cowardly, or maybe
both; but to make you feel that I'm neither the one nor the other, and
that you have no raison to be so either, I say I'll take you at your
word. Do you manage Mave Sullivan's business, and I'll see what can be
done with the other. An' listen to me now, it's our business, in case
of a discovery of the robbery, to have Masther Dick's neck as far in the
noose for Mave's affair as ours may be for the other thing; an' for the
same raison you needn't care how far you drive him. He doesn't wish to
have violence; but do you take care that there will be violence,
an' then maybe we may manage him if there's a discovery