In that case the Government will also bountifully reward you besides." "The Government need not think of any such thing, your honor," replied Reilly; "a penny of Government money will never cross my pocket.

It isn't for any reward I come against this man, but because he joined the blood-hounds of Sir Robert Whitecraft against his own priests and his own religion; or at last against the religion he professed, for I don't think he ever had any." "Well, then, I can make you one of my officers." "Is it to go among the poor and distressed, sir, and help, maybe, to take the bed from undher the sick father or the sick mother, and to leave them without a stick undher the ould roof or naked walls?
No, sir; sooner than do that I'd take to the highway once more, and rob like a man in the face of danger.

That I may never see to-morrow," he proceeded, with vehemence, "but I'd rather rob ten rich men than harish one poor family.

It was that work that druv me to the coorse I left--that an' the persecution that was upon us.

Take my word, sir, that in nineteen cases out of twenty it was the laws themselves, and the poverty they brought upon the country, that made the robbers." "But could you not give evidence against some others of the gang ?" "No, sir; there is not one of them in this part of the kingdom, and I believe the most of them all are out of it altogether.