I was bid to say to you that the hour is come, and the man, and that's all I know; barrin' that as I said you wor bid to come wid me, if you wish to sarve thia family.

Now I must go." "Stop a moment," said M'Carthy, "till I return into the house, and let them know I'm going out." "No," replied the other; "if you do, you won't find me here when you come back.

This instant, or never." "To serve this family, you say ?" "To sarve this family, I was bid to say.

I know nothing, an' can say nothing about it myself." "Come, then," said M'Carthy, resolutely, and thinking of the note he had received in college, "I trust you, or rather I will trust the man that sent you;" and having uttered these words, he departed with the stranger.

The scene now changes to a hill, three or four miles distant from the proctor's house, called Crockaniska, at the foot of which was a small but beautiful lake or tarn, from which a graceful little stream fell down into a green and picturesque valley, that lay to the south below it.