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The story of the poor mad woman who still proclaims in her seclusion the justice of the deed which she did, has now been told It may perhaps be well to collect the scattered ends of the threads of the tale for the benefit of readers who desire to know the whole of a history

Mrs O'Hara never returned to the cottage on the cliffs after the perpetration of the deed On the unhappy priest devolved the duty of doing whateverbarracks were told that the young lord had perished by a fall from the cliffs, and by them search was made for the body No real attempt was set on foot to screen the woman who had done the deed by any concealment of the facts She herself was not alive to the necessity ofany such attempt "An eye for an eye!" she said to the head-constable when the ated 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

The deed which the wo 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 By degrees Father Marty learned fro of the circu's work Kate had not seen her lover that day, but had been left in the cottage while her mother went out to meet the man, and if possible to persuade him to do her child justice The priest understood that she would be waiting for theot upon his horse and rode up the hill with a heavy heart What should he tell her; and how should he tell it?

Before he reached the cottage she ca down the hillside to him "Father Marty, where is mother? Where is Mr Neville? You know I see that you know Where are they?" He got off his horse and put his ar bank by the wayside "Why don't you speak?" she said