To this no answer was returned, for not a man of them could account for the disappearance of Lamh Laudher.

A wavy motion, such as passes over the forest top under a low blast, stirred the whole multitude; this was the result of many feelings, but that which prevailed amongst them was disappointment.

A second time the Dead Boxer repeated the words, but except the stir and hum which we have described, there was not a voice heard in reply.

Lamh Laudher's very friends felt mortified, and the decaying spirit of Lamh Laudher More rallied for a moment.

His voice alone was heard above the dead silence,-- "He will come, back," said he, "my son will come; and I would now rather see him dead than that he should fear to be a man." He had scarcely spoken, when a loud cheer, which came rapidly onward, was heard outside the church-yard.