All the terrible passions of the father's heart leaped into action at the rain of his child, and the disgrace which it entailed upon his name.

The fury of domestic affection stimulated his heart, and blazed in his brain even to madness.

His daughter was obliged to fly with her infant and conceal herself from his vengeance, though the unhappy girl, until the occurrence of that woful calamity, had been the solace and the sunshine of his life.

The guilty seducer, however, was not doomed to escape the penalty of his crime.

Morrissey--for that was the poor man's name--cared not for law; whether it was to recompense him for the degradation of his daughter, or to punish him for inflicting the vengeance of outraged nature upon the author of her ruin.