secreted
it, but could tell nothing of its ultimate and mysterious disappearance.

Hanlon's part in tracing the murder is already known, we presume, to the
reader. He dreamt, but his dream was not permitted to go to the jury,
that his father came to him, and said, that if he repaired to the Grey
Stone, at Glendhu, on a night which he named, at the hour of twelve
o'clock, he would get such a clue to his murder as would enable him to
bring his murderer to justice.

"Are you the son, then, of the man who is said to have been murdered?"
asked the judge.

"He was his son," he replied, "and came first to that part of the
country in consequence of having been engaged in a Party fight in his
native place. It seems a warrant had been issued against him and others,
and he thought it more prudent to take his mother's name, which was
Hanlon, in order to avoid discovery, the case being a very common one
under circumstances of that kind."

Rody Duncan's explanation, with respect to the Tobacco-Box, was not
called for on the trial, but we shall give it here in order to satisfy
the reader. He saw Nelly M'Gowan, as we may still call her, thrusting
something under the thatch of the cabin, and feeling a kind of curiosity
to ascertain what it could be, he seized the first opportunity of
examining, and finding a tobacco-box, he put it in his pocket, and
thought himself extremely fortunate in securing it, for reasons which
the reader will immediately understand. The truth is, that Rody,
together with about half a dozen virtuous youths in the neighborhood,
were in the habit of being out pretty frequently at night--for
what purposes we will not now wait to inquire. Their usual place
of rendezvous was the Grey Stone, in consequence of the shelter and
concealment which its immense projections afforded them. On the night
of the first meeting between Sarah and Hanlon, Rody had heard the whole
conversation by accident, whilst waiting for his companions, and very
judiciously furnished the groans, as he did also upon the second night,
on both occasions for his own amusement. His motives for ingratiating
himself through means of the box, with Sarah and Hanlon, are already
known to the reader, and require no further explanation from us.

In fact, such a train of circumstantial evidence was produced, as
completely established the Prophet's guilt, in the opinion of all who
had heard the trial, and the result was a verdict of guilty by the jury,
an