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A sleepy reporter was aroused and despatched after Pat, in order to learn, if possible, the contents of Mr Arnot's note

In the ue and h Life," were set up, acco effect: "With our usual enterprise and keen scent for nee discovered at a late hour last night that an intelligent Irishentleht to the superintendent of the police The guilty party appears to be a Mr Haldane--a young man of aristocratic and wealthy connections--who is at present in Mr Arnot's employ, and a member of his farave offence, but in justice to all concerned we refer our readers to our next issue, wherein they will find full particulars of the painful affair, since we have obtained peculiar facilities for learning them No arrests have yet been ossips in town, and nearly double our next issue," complacently muttered the local editor, as he carried the scrawl at the last -room

In the meantime the hero of our story--if such a ter can be applied to one whose folly had brought hiht--still lay in a heavy stupor on the lounge where Pat had thrown his form, that had been as limp and helpless as if it had become a mere body without a soul But the consequences of his action did not cease with his paralysis, anyman