9/47 You know the reward; catch him, and you shall have it." The constables departed; and after they had gone the sheriff said, "Mr.Reilly, I know you well; but I would scorn to avail myself of the circumstance which has thus occurred. I am aware of the motive which urges Sir Robert Whitecraft against you--so is the whole country. That penurious and unprincipled villain is thirsting for your blood. Mr.Hastings, however, has a rod in pickle for him, and he will be made to feel it in the course of time. The present administration is certainly an anti-Catholic one; but I understand it is tottering, and that a more liberal one will come in. |