You understand, Ned, how matters stand, don't you ?" "Yes, sir," Ned said after a pause; "I seem to know that some one said that Mr.Mulready was dead, and some one thought that I had killed him, and then I started to come over to give myself up.

Oh! yes, I remember that, and then there was an examination before the magistrates.

I remember it all; but it seems just as if it had been a dream." "Yes, that is what happened, Ned, and naturally it seems a dream to you, because you were so completely overcome by excitement and want of food and sleep that you were scarcely conscious of what was passing.

Now we want you to think over quietly, as well as you can, what you did when you left home." Ned sat for a long time without speaking.
"It seems all confused," he said at last.

"I don't even remember going out of the house.