She herself was not alive to the necessity of making any such attempt.

"An eye for an eye!" she said to the head-constable when the man interrogated her.

It soon became known to all Liscannor, to Ennistimon, to the ladies at Castle Quin, and to all the barony of Corcomroe that Mrs.O'Hara had thrust the Earl of Scroope over the cliffs of Moher, and that she was now detained at the house of Father Marty in the custody of a policeman.

Before the day was over it was declared also that she was mad,--and that her daughter was dying.
The deed which the woman had done and the death of the young lord were both terrible to Father Marty; but there was a duty thrown upon him more awful to his mind even than these.

Kate O'Hara, when her mother appeared at the priest's house, had been alone at the cottage.