This was immediately on their return, and before the informations against Reilly were drawn up.

Folliard, who knew not what to think, paused for some time, and at! last, taking the sheriff along with him, went! to hear what O'Donnel had to say.
"Is that ruffian safe ?" he asked, before entering the room; "have you so secured him that he can't be mischievous ?" "Quite safe, your honor, and as harmless as a lamb." He and the sheriff then entered, and found the huge savage champing his teeth and churning with his jaws, until a line of white froth encircled his mouth, rendering him a hideous and fearful object to look at.
"What is this you want with me, you misbegotten villain," said the squire.

"Stand between the ruffian and me, fellows, in the meantime--what is it, sirra ?" "Who's the robber now, Mr.Folliard ?" he asked, with something, however, of a doubtful triumph in his red glaring eye.

"Your daughter had jewels in a black cabinet, and I'd have secured the same jewels and your daughter along with them, on a certain night, only for Reilly; and it was very natural he should out-general me, which he did; but it was only to get both for himself.

Let him be searched at wanst, and, although I don't say he has them, yet I'd give a hundred to one he has; she would never carry them while he was with her." The old squire, who would now, with peculiar pleasure, have acted in the capacity of hangman in Reilly's case, had that unfortunate young man been doomed to undergo the penalty of the law, and that no person in the shape of Jack Ketch was forthcoming--he, we say--the squire--started at once to the room where Reilly was secured, accompanied also by the sheriff, and, after rushing in with a countenance inflamed by passion, shouted out: "Seize and examine that villain; he has robbed me--examine him instantly: he has stolen the family jewels." Reilly's countenance fell, for he knew his Fearful position; but that which weighed heaviest upon his heart was a consciousness of the misinterpretations which the world might put upon the motives of his conduct in this elopement, imputing it to selfishness and a mercenary spirit.