went out too; but he didn't
much care for that, ounly he thought she might as well have
staid at home, and so he couldn't go to sleep for thinking
of it. "Well, at one o'clock in the morning," he continued,
lower-ing his voice into a sort of loud whisper; "at one
o'clock in the morn-ing Misther Burke lets himself in with
the key that he had, and goes up to bed--and I thought
nothing at all; but presently I hears something come tap,
tap, tap, at the street door. The minute after comes down
Misther Burke, and opens the door, and sure it was Mary--
Mistress Sullivan that is, more's the pity--and devil a bit
she came to see after me at all in the little back parlour,
but up stairs she goes after Misther Burke. Och! says 1, but
there's some-thing the matter with me this night! and I got
up with the night-cap o' th' head of me, and went into the
shop to see for a knife, but I couldn't get one by no manes.
So I creeps up stairs, step by step, step by step," (here
Mr. Sullivan walked on tiptoe all across the office, to show
the magistrate how quietly he went up the stairs), "and when
I gets to the top I sees 'em, by the gash (gas) coming
through the chink in the window curtains; I sees 'em, and
'Och, Mistress Sullivan!' says he: and 'Och, Misther Burke,'
says she:--and och! botheration, says I to myself, and what
shall I do now?" We cannot follow Mr. Sullivan any farther
in the detail of his melancholy affair; it is sufficient
that he saw enough to convince him that he was dishonoured:
that, by some accident or other, he disturbed the guilty
pair, whereupon Mrs. Sullivan crept under Mr. Burke's bed,
to hide herself; that Mr. Sullivan rushed into the room, and
dragged her from under the bed, by her "wicked leg;" and
that he felt about the round table in the corner, where Mr.
Burke kept his bread and cheese, in the hope of finding a
knife.

"And what would you have done with it, if you had found it?"
asked his worship.

"Is it what I would have done with it, your honour asks?"
exclaimed Mr. Sullivan, almost choked with rage--"Is it what
I would have done with it?--ounly that I'd have digged it
into the heart of 'em at the same time!" As he said this, he
threw himself into an attitude of wild desperation, and made
a tremendous lu