session of a house, for which he, M'Ivor, received twelve months'
imprisonment. It happened also about that time, that is, a little before
the murder, that he had become jealous of her and a neighbor, who had
paid his addresses to her before marriage. M'Ivor, at this period, acted
in the capacity of a plain Land Surveyor among the farmers and cottiers
of the barony, and had much reputation for his exactness and accuracy.
While in prison, he vowed deadly vengeance against her brother,
Magennis, and swore, that if ever she spoke to him, acknowledged him,
or received him into her house during his life, she should never live
another day under his roof.

In this state matters were, when her brother, having heard that her
husband was in a distant part of the barony, surveying, or subdividing
a farm, came to ask her to her sister's wedding, and while in the house,
the Prophet, most unexpectedly, was discovered, within a few perches
of the door, on his return. Terror, on her part, from a dread of his
violence, and also an apprehension lest he and her brother should meet,
and, perhaps, seriously injure each other, even to bloodshed, caused her
to hurry the latter into another room, with instructions to get out of
the window as quietly as possible, and to go home. Unfortunately he did
so, but had scarcely escaped, when a poor mendicant woman, coming in
to ask alms, exclaimed--"Take care, good people, that you have not been
robbed--I saw a man comin' out of the windy, and runnin' over toward
Jemmy Campel's house"--Campel being the name of the young man of whom
her husband was jealous.

M'Ivor, now furious, ran towards Campel's, and meeting that person's
servant-maid at the door, asked "if her master was at home."

She replied, "Yes, he just came in this minute."

"What direction did he come from?"

"From the direction of your own house," she answered.

It should be stated, however, that his wife, at once recollecting his
jealousy, told him immediately that the person who had left the house
was her brother; but he rushed on, and paid no attention whatsoever to
her words.

From this period forward he never lived with her, but she has heard
recently--no longer ago than last night--that he had associated himself
with a woman named Eleanor M'Guirk, about thirty miles farther west from
their original neighborhood, near a place called Glendhu, and it was at
that place her brother was murdered.

Neither her anxieties nor her trou