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As also it did for the poor girl For a while everything was done for her under the care of Father Marty;--but there was another Earl of Scroope in the world, and as soon as the story was known to him and the circumstances had been made clear, he came forward to offer on behalf of the fa As months rolled on the time of Kate O'Hara's further probation ca infant It was at last thought better that she should go to her father and live in France with hih the man was The priest offered to find a home for her in his own house at Liscannor; but, as he said himself, he was an old man, and one hen he ould leave no home behind him And then it was felt that the close vicinity of the spot on which her lover had perished would produce a continued ht crush her spirits utterly Captain O'Hara therefore was desired to come and fetch his child,--and he did so, with many protestations of virtue for the future If actual pecuniary coiven him The Earl of Scroope was only too liberal in the settlehter and not on the father; and it is possible therefore that soentle restraint may have served to keep him out of the deep abysses of wickedness

The effects of the tragedy on the coast of Clare spread beyond Ireland, and drove another woe of insanity When the Countess of Scroope heard the story, she shut herself up at Scroope and would see no one but her own servants When the succeeding Earl came to the house which was now his own, she refused to admit him into her presence, and declined even a renewed visit from Miss Mellerby who at that tiyman of Scroope prevailed, and to hiy that went perhaps beyond the truth, the sin of her own conduct in producing the catastrophe which had occurred "I knew that he had wronged her, and yet I bade hiist of her confession and she declared that the young man's blood would be on her hands till she died A se was prepared for her on the estate, and there she lived in absolute seclusion till death relieved her from her sorrows