There can now be little, doubt who their accomplice was.

Had you been an older man I should have sentenced you to transportation for life, but in consideration of your youth, I shall take the milder course of sentencing you to fifteen years' transportation." The capital sentence was then passed in much fewer words upon the two highwaymen.

As they were leaving the dock Bastow turned, and in a clear voice said to John Thorndyke, who had been accommodated with a seat in the well of the court: "I have to thank you, Thorndyke, for this.

I will pay off my debt some day, you make take your oath." "A sad case, Mr.Thorndyke--a sad case," the judge, who had greatly complimented the Squire on his conduct, said to him as he was disrobing afterwards.

"I don't know that in all my experience I ever saw such a hardened young villain.