The accounts all closed with the information that the wounded had been carried to Jervis Street Hospital, and were under treatment suitable to their injuries.

Hyacinth had suffered a slight concussion of the brain and a flesh wound.

Other sufferers were in the same ward, Mr.Shea himself occupying a bed, so that Hyacinth had the satisfaction of seeing him stretched out, a melancholy figure, with a bandage concealing most of his red hair.

After the surgeon had finished his rounds for the morning a police official visited the sufferers, and made a careful note of their names and addresses.

He inquired in a perfunctory manner whether any of them wished to swear an information.