Nature, always strongest in pure minds, even before this denouement, had, indeed, rekindled the mysterious flame of her own affection in their hearts.

The father pressed her to his bosom, and forgot the terrors of the sound before him, whilst the son embraced her with a secret consciousness that she was, indeed, his long-lost sister.
"We couldn't account," said her parents, "for the way we loved you the day we met you before the magistrate; every word you said, Alice darling, went into our hearts wid delight, an' we could hardly ever think of your voice ever since, that the tears didn't spring to our eyes.

But we never suspected, as how could we, that you were our child." She declared that she felt the same mysterious attachment to them, and to her brother also, from the moment she heard the tones of his voice on the night the robbery was attempted.
"Nor could I," said Lamh Laudher Oge, "account for the manner I loved you." Their attention was now directed to Nell, who again spoke.
"Nanse, give her back the money I robbed her of.

There was more of my villainy, but God fought against me, an'-- here--.

You will find, it along with her marriage certificate, an' the gospel she had about her neck, when I kidnapped her, all in my pocket.