dence of Biddy Nulty, some of the other servants,
and the Bodagh, who identified some of the notes, was quite sufficient
against him, with respect to the robbery. Nor was any evidence adduced
of more circumstantial weight than Kitty Lowry's, who, on being
satisfied of Flanagan's designs against Una, and that she was
consequently no more than his dupe, openly acknowledged the part she
had taken in the occurrences of the night on which the outrages were
committed. This confession agreed so well with Bartle's character
for caution and skill in everything he undertook, that his object in
persuading her to leave the hall door open was not only clear, but
perfectly consistent with the other parts of his plan. It was a capital
crime; and when fame once more had proclaimed abroad that Bartle
Flanagan was condemned to be hanged for robbing Bodagh Buie, they
insisted still more strongly that the sentence was an undeniable
instance of retributive justice. Striking, indeed, was the difference
between his deportment during the trial, and the manly fortitude of
Connor O'Donovan, when standing under as heavy a charge at the same bar.
The moment he entered the dock, it was observed that his face expressed
all the pusillanimous symptoms of the most unmanly terror. His brows
fell, or rather hung over his eyes, as if all their muscular power had
been lost--giving to his countenance not only the vague sullenness of
irresolute ferocity, but also, as was legible in his dead small eye,
the cold calculations of deep and cautious treachery; nor was his white,
haggard cheek a less equivocal assurance of his consummate cowardice.
Many eyes were now turned upon him; for we need scarcely say that his
part of a case which created so much romantic interest as the conviction
of Connor O'Donovan, and the history it developed of the mutual
affection which subsisted between him and Una, was by no means
forgotten. And even if it had, his present appearance and position
would, by the force of ordinary association, have revived it in the
minds of any then present.

Deprived of all moral firmness, as he appeared to be, on entering the
dock, yet, as the trial advanced, it was evident that his heart and
spirits were sinking still more and more, until at length his face,
in consequence of its ghastliness, and the involuntary hanging of his
eyebrows, indicated scarcely any other expression than that of utter
helplessness, or the feeble agony of a mind so miserab