in
like the rest."

"How is that?--does the Englishman never come to it?"

"Why should he come to it? Sure it's in law ever since that
black-hearted villain Hemsworth was killed--nobody knows who owns it,
and they say it will never be found out; but," said she, rising, and
gathering her cloak around her as she prepared to move away--"there's
neither luck nor grace upon the spot. God Almighty made it beautiful and
lovely to look upon, but man and man's wickedness brought a curse down
upon it."

The man drew his purse forth, and, while endeavouring to take some
pieces of money from it by the aid of his single remaining hand, she
turned abruptly about, and, staring him stedfastly in the face, said--

"I'll not take your money--'tisn't money will serve me now--them that's
poor themselves will never see me in want."

"Stop a moment," said the stranger, "I have a claim on you."

"That you haven't," said the woman, sternly--"I know you well, Mark
O'Donoghue--ay, and your wife, Miss Kate there; but it isn't by a
purse full of gold you'll ever make up for desarting the cause of ould
Ireland."

"Don't be angry with her," whispered a low mild voice behind. He turned,
and saw a very old man dressed in black, and with all the semblance of
a priest. "Don't be angry with her, sir; poor Mary's senses are often
wandering; and," added he with a sigh, "she has met sore trials, and may
well be pardoned, if, in the bitterness of her grief, she looks at
the world with little favour or forgiveness. She has mistaken you for
another, and hence the source of her anger."

THE END.

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