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"He hadn't any money, I suppose?"

"'Deed and I don't think he was iver throubled much in respect of money But money doesn't matter, Mr Neville"

"Not in the least," said Fred

"Thim ladies up there are as poor as Job, but anybody that should say that they weren't ladies would just be shewing that he didn't know the difference The Captain ell born, Mr Neville, av' that , Father Marty"

"Thin let the Captain have the advantage The, but he was a chip of that block; and so to hi him a Papist 'Deed and I must say, Mr Neville, when they send us any offsets froive us"

"I suppose not, Father Marty"

"We canof a bit of wood that won't take ony shape at all, at all along wid the of the Captain"

"But is he alive, Father Marty;--or is he dead? I think I've a right to be told"

"I aht, Mr Neville You have a right if that young lady up there is to be your wife" Fred h the priest paused for athat he would do so But the question could be asked again, and Father Marty went on to tell all that he knew, and all that he had heard of Captain O'Hara He was alive Mrs O'Hara had received a letter purporting to be fro for ht that there ht perhaps be a doubt whether it ritten by theMrs O'Hara had declared that if it were so written the handwriting wasof a e It elve years since she had last received a letter from him

"And what do you believe?"

"I think he lives, and that he wrote it, Mr Neville I'll tell you God's truth about it as I believe it, because as I said before, I think you are entitled to know the truth"

"And as done?"

"I sent off to London,--to a friend I have"

"And what did your friend say?"

"He says there is ahimself Captain O'Hara"