hat he disappeared, at any rate. She resided by
herself, in a little house at the mouth of the Glendhu--the same she and
the Prophet had lived in ever since. They had not long been acquainted
at that time--but still longer than was right or proper. She had
been very little in the country then, and any time he did come was
principally at night, when he stopped with her, and went away again,
generally before day in the morning. He passed himself on her as an
unmarried man, and said his name was M'Gowan. On that evening he came
about dusk, but went out again, and she did not see him till far in the
night, when he returned, and appeared to be fatigued and agitated--his
clothes, too, were soiled and crumpled, especially the collar of his
shirt, which was nearly torn off, as in a struggle of some kind. She
asked him what was the matter with him, and said he looked as if he had
been fighting." He replied--

"No, Nelly; but I've killed two birds with one stone this night."

She asked him what he meant by those words, but he would give her no
further information.

"I'll give no explanation," said he, "but this;" and turning his back
to her, he opened a tobacco-box, which, by stretching her neck, she saw
distinctly, and, taking out a roll of bank notes, he separated one from
the rest, and handing it to her, exclaimed--"there's all the explanation
you can want; a close mouth, Nelly, is the sign of a wise-head, an' by
keepin' a close mouth, you'll get more explanations of this kind. Do you
understand that?" said he. "I do," she replied.

"Very well, then," he observed "let that be the law and gospel between
us."

When he fell asleep, she got up, and looking at the box, saw that it
was stuffed with bank notes, had a broken hinge--the hinge was freshly
broken--and something like two letters on the lid of it.

"She then did not see it," she continued, "until some weeks ago, when
his daughter and herself having had a quarrel, in which the girl cut
her--she (his daughter) on stretching up for some cobwebs on the wall
to stanch the bleeding, accidentally pulled the box out of a crevice, in
which it had been hid. About this time," she added, "the prisoner became
very restless at night, indeed, she might say by day and night, and
after a good deal of gloomy ill temper, he made inquiries for it, and on
hearing that it had again appeared, even threatened her life if it were
not produced." She closed her evidence by stating that she had