They served their sentences, were given two years each for good behavior, and are somewhere in South America.

The fourth killed himself when he was taken near Moose Factory, and the other three went what the law calls 'bad.' Henry, the oldest of them all, killed the officer who was bringing him down from Prince Albert in '99, and was afterward executed.

Paul, the sixth, returned to his native town seven years after the hanging of his father and was captured after wounding two of the officers who went in pursuit of him.

He is now in an insane asylum." The inspector paused, and ran his eyes over a fresh slip of paper.
"And all this," said Philip in a low voice, "because of a crime committed by the law itself.

Five men hung, one a suicide, three in prison and one in an insane asylum--because of a blunder of the law!" "The king can do no wrong," said MacGregor with gentle irony, "and neither can the law.