, 1889-04-03

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immediate gain, without mnch considering
the CONSEQUENCES. Then came his pxamiu-
alton aud his cross examination. On the
Saturday following his croSS-examination
l was ar home, when my door opened, and
SOMEONE WAS announced. It was PigOtt.
Respecting this interview, | have already
stated IN the witness box what took place.
| pitied the man, because he reall, seem.
ed to be thinking more of his children than
himself; AMI it seemed to me that, bad rs
his previous career hal been, he had i'm
this particular case been rs much sinned
against as SHINING.
Why, | have often seen it asked. did not
Mr.. Parnell atOnce bring an action against
the Itmes for libel upon the publication of
the fac-simile letter. Because Mr.. Parnrll
is u cool and cleAr.headed calculator. he
risks nothing by impetuous eagerneSs.
Like Phillip of Spain, he might say, Time
and ! are two" Before MIR. Egan had
sent ever his drafts and given us the clue,
Mr.. ParneIl bud II" evidence TO show who
the fOrger was. Under these circumstan-
ces, lie wisely waited, knowing thar,
sooner or later, evidence would turn up.
The evidence only did turn up after MIR.
Smith aud his cold friend" had agreed
together TO insist upon an investigation by
means of u Royal Commission. / know Of
DO Instance III history Ut u man showing
SUCH c0ol determination not to be forced
into p%r"cipltate action by the ~jeers, the
SieerS, AMI vllldcItiOH of political Oppon.
entS, and no instance of so complete a
final triumph OF right over wrong.
There is IA simplicity about MI. SOames
and Mr.. Macdonald that has its comic side.
These two gentlemen, when in the witness.
box, smiled triulp pIlantIy as they explain.
ed that their detectives had watched
Pig0tt into my house. 1t never seemed
70 have occurred to them that NJ. Parnell.
Mr.. Lewis, and | would hardly have met
PlgOtt at my house it we had been DESTROYS
that the Other side should not know it.
| never entertained the shadow of a doubt
thar Plgott wonli try to play Us of
against h" TIHes, in order tn induce
MeSSr1. S0ameA and Macdonald to offer
him money If h. gave his testimony for
them. This, IN | anticipated, he did, and
extracted "a promise that he should I" not
he ruInpd.' knew, however, that il he
played us 0H aginS' the Times he would
play the Times of against US, and that
AS a man has to ShOH samples Of the wares
thar h+ wants to sell, | should, in any case,
pick mp n good deal of valuable infOrma.
ton from HIM; whilst the fact OF Pigott
visiting me- wOnld, il possible, muddle
still more the brains Of The anticipates,
and lead them to commit some new act
of folly.
What motive Pigott had in calling upon
me on the Saturday previous to his dis.
appearance do not know. Probably he
hardly knew himself. | should imagine
thar he went out OF his hotel without any
liked plan, aud drifted into my house.
Probably he was angry with the men who
had taken advantage Of his misery for [
have since learnt that when Houston went
to him his wife had just died, aud he was
without money to bury her, or TO feed his
children, and he considered that they lad
wrought his ruin. Having confessed, and rea.
llSett that he had hardly betterrd his position.
he explained what he had done to Shannon,
and then thought that he would disavOw
a portion of the confession, with u view to
some subsequent operations. Probably he
had on Saturday already determined to
leave the country, for he struck me as q
vain man. The witneSS-box must have
been a veritable piIlOry to him. and he
must have been terribly anxious to avoid
tue shame Of further C DISCRIMINATION.
gather that he told Shannon that he hid
informed me that the Houston correspOn.
dence was at his house in KingstOwn.
How and why he sent a telegram for it to
Oe destroyed rem IinN still to be- explained.
Tor II Seems strange that he should not
have kept - correspond nce which evident.
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