However, I'll try if I can remember it; if I do, I'll tell you." "You an' he will hang that murdherin' villain, Dalton--" "I'm afeard o' that," replied the other; "an' for my part, I'd as soon be out of the thing altogether; however, it can't be helped now.'" "Isn't it sthrange, Rody, how murdher comes out at last ?" observed Hanlon; "now there's that ould man, an' see, after twenty years or more, how it comes against him.

However, it's not a very pleasant subject, so let it dhrop.

Here's Masther Richard comin' through the private gate," he added; "but if you slip down to my aunt's to-night, we'll have a glass of something that'll do us no harm at any rate, and we can talk more about the other business." "Very well," replied Rody, "I'll be down, so goodbye; an' whisper, Charley," he added, putting on a broad grin; "don't be too sure that I tould you a single word o' thruth about the rob--hem--ha, ha! take care of yourself--good people is scarce you know--ha, ha, ha!" He then left Hanlon in a state of considerable doubt as to the discovery he had made touching the apprehended burglary; and his uncertainty was the greater, inasmuch as he had frequently heard the highest possible encomiums lavished upon Duncan's extraordinary powers of invention and humbug.
Young Henderson, on hearing these circumstances, did not seriously question their truth; neither did they in the slightest degree shake his confidence in the intentions of the Prophet with respect to Mave Sullivan.

Indeed, he argued very reasonably and correctly, that the man who was capable of the one act, would have little hesitation to commit the other.

This train of reflection, however, he kept to himself, for it is necessary to state here, that Hanlon was not at all in the secret of the plot against Mave.