Where are the boys _for the Grange ?_" "Undher shelter of the Grey Stone, waitin' to start." "Well, then, as it it," said Donnel, "they know their business, at any rate.

The Grange folk don't expect them this week to come, you think ?" Rody looked at the Prophet very keenly, as he thought of the conversation that took place between himself and Charley Hanlon, and which, upon an explanation with Donnel, he had detailed.

The fellow, however, as we said, was both cowardly and suspicious, and took it into his head that his friend might feel disposed to play him a trick, by sending him to conduct the burglary, of which Hanlon had spoken with such startling confidence--a piece of cowardice which, indeed, was completely gratuitous and unfounded on his part; the truth being, that it was the Prophet's interest, above all things, to keep Rody out of danger, both for that worthy individual's sake and his own.

Rody, We say, looked at him; and of a certainty it must be admitted, that the physiognomy of our friend, the Seer, during that whole day, was one from which no very high opinion of his integrity or good faith could be drawn.
"It's a very sthrange thing," replied Rody, in a tone of thought and reflection, "how Charley Hanlon came to know of this matther at all." "He never heard a word of it," replied Donnel, "barrin' from yourself." "From me!" replied Rody, indignantly; "what do you mane by that ?" "Why, when you went to sound him," said Donnel, "you let too much out; and Charley was too cute not to see what you wor at." "All _feathalagh_ an' nonsense," replied Eody, who, by the way, entertained a very high opinion of his own sagacity; "no mortal could suspect that there was a plot to rob the house from what I said; but hould," he added, slapping his knee, as if he had made a discovery, "_ma chorp an' dioul_, but I have it all." "What is it ?" said the Prophet, calmly.
"You tould the matther to Sarah, an' she, by coorse, tould it to Charley Hanlon, that she tells everything to." "No such thing," replied the other.

"Sarah knows nothing about the robbery that's to go on to-night at the Grange, but she did about the plan upon Mave Sullivan, and promised to help us in it, as I tould you before." [Illustration: PAGE 913-- I'll have nothing to do with this robbery] "Well, at any rate," replied Duncan, "I'll have nothing to do with this robbery--devil a thing; but I'll make a bargain wid you--if you manage the Grange business, I'll lend a hand in Mave Sullivan's affair." The Prophet looked at him, fastening his dark piercing eyes-upon his face-- "I see," he proceeded, "you're suspicious or you're cowardly, or maybe both; but to make you feel that I'm neither the one nor the other, and that you have no raison to be so either, I say I'll take you at your word.