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ed from the docket, every man. woman and child,
Hacked TO The place of trial--some To sympathse
WIN the Gagged patriot some to exult his fall
anu very many 10 see the man, whose name had
been held up as word of equal terror to refractory
children and full grown men,
MARY" said her lover, as he saw her arraye
IN rushc hnery, "surely, ye'er not going 10 the
court to-day"
Indeed am" she replied, "I'll go and give
The poor prisoner blessing with my eye, stree
can do nothing else for him. Why should stay
away, when man is tn be tried for his life, be-
ga .se he loved us too well? Surely we must 90
and say TO him by our presence, that we are with
him in our Irish hearts,"
"lrs no place for women, tell ye," exclaimed
Phem with sudden violence, and then coaxingly,
Indeed, you must not GO. Stay at home and think
OF what Pm telling We, that l've got fifty golden
guinness, and we can be married next week. or as
soon as you'll only say the word"
Fifty guineas in real gold Who gave them
10 ys-was ii the master, or"
"ifush! Here's the masters own voice, call
ing me now, so must GO Stay at home, Mary
dear, or iii not forgive ye."
81 don't understand ye, Phelim, and ,yiU 90 to
the COURT" said Mary to herself. "Ffly guineas
OF bright and heavy god-blessings on the giverp'
In opening the case the prosecuting attorney was
observed TO look anXiously around the court as if
In search Of particular face. Each time he
was disappointed, and at last was obliged To an
nounce, that in the absence Of its principal witness
the Crown would first resort to other evidence
And meagre enough was that evidence to all in the
crowded court. Everything manifes,ly depended
upon the principal witness, the Iltormer, and with
out his speedy appearance, the prisoner would
doubtless be entitled 10 acquit,al. At last, the
Crown officer finished his other evidence and
gain peered anxiously about the court. This Time
his face lighted with satisfaction.
"Phem Reeney'
'Pnem w cried faint SmOthpred
the opposite side of the ROOM
''Silence there in the court' shouted the Sheriff
angily.
But there was silence in Mary Donovan's
| heart
81 see it now-those fifty golden cuineas! All.
they have made Phclim Reeney an Euformcr, but
| they shall never make me his wife"
The !ntormer felt the moist, yet flashing eye Of
Mary Donovan, burning into his brain, and he shi
vered with terror but the voice of the prosecuting
attorney soon restored self possession, and he cooy
! testified as follows:
| lie had disguised himself, and Joined the rebels
ia their great meeting the night Of the first ris-
ing. He had especially marked the prisoner at the
bar, as the seeming leader, and the under whose
direction the whole body acted He heard this pri-
soner utter words, and saw him do acts of treason
ON that night. This the substance of his tes-
tInony, and so clear full, and direct was it through
out, that every saw the prisoners life was
hanging on the words from this nformer's lips
The Crown lawyers skillfully pumped him of eve
ry thing and found that he had cone full Justice t,
his training.
The first question on the cross examination wa.
in regard 10 the time of this affair. Phelim appear
ed somewhat uneasy, and replied in very low
tone.
"louder!" cried one of the Judges
"llwas the night before the Observation-Disclosures
Eve"
''No ii was not on Hallowmas Evei" exclaim-
ed Mary Donovan rising with an uncomfortable
Impulse. "Phelim! you not even an IniormeI
you perjured ;"
There was dead silence for one instant, and then
the prisoners counsel spoke sharply
WHATS this! Let that girl come to the wit
ness siand''
Pale, but not trembling, she took the place where
Phem had just stood.
You say it was not on Hallowmas Eve-tel
all YOU know"
Sine fixed her eyes on her lover, and kept them
there steadily until she had finished. Moo ques-
toned interrupted her in the of her bro
ken testimony
Never would be standing in this place, your
Honors ii the false oath and the black word had n;
come from the lips of Phelim Reeney. Never
would open .iy mouth TO condemn the man love
best, If he himself had not compelled me II. do it.
This man was my lover, before he sold
his country, and me too with it. And the very
night that he first spoke his false words TO me
without check was this same HallOwmas I've
when he swears he was up In the mountains, dis
gused as one of the band Of that prisoner at the
bar We talked till two in the night--do We deny
il? Look then at this, which take from my boz
som for the last tme-this lock of your hair wrap
, ped in papef-and yeve written on that paper
these words with yer own hand,
Phelim Reency