Tommy Dove, who might have been seen in a foremost position amongst the crowd of spectators, was heard audibly to exclaim-- "Law, I guess there ain't no leg for my respected pa to stand on now!" This, although not expressed aloud, seemed also to be Dove's opinion, for he then and there made a full confession of his wicked practices, and of the cruel threats he had employed to terrify Daisy.

He received his sentence, which was a severe one, with much stoicism, and, as he was led away from his place in the prisoner's dock, addressed a parting word to his affectionate and hysterical spouse-- "Never mind, Mrs.Dove, my only love, even fourteen years comes to an end somehow, and when we meets again we'll make a rule for there being no attic lodgers." "To the very end his was a poetic turn," his wife afterwards remarked to her favorite cronies..