You know there's blood upon their hands." "No, I don't know any such thing; I believe he was charged with the murder of Mave Sullivan's uncle, but as the body could not be found, there were no grounds for a prosecution.

I don't, therefore, know that there's blood upon his hand." "Well, then, if you don't--may God direct! me!" he added, "an' guide me to the best--if you don't, Masther Richard--Heaven direct me agin!--will I say it ?--could you get that family quietly out of the counthry, Masther Richard?
Bekaise if you could, it would be betther, maybe, for all parties." "You seem to know something about these Daltons, Mr.M'Gowan ?" asked Dick, "and to speak mysteriously of them ?" "Well, then, I do," he replied; "but! what I have to say, I ought to say it to your father, who is a magistrate." The other stared at him with surprise, but said nothing for a minute or two.
"What is this mystery ?" he added at length; "I cannot understand you; but it is clear that you mean something extraordinary." "God pardon me, Masther Richard, but you are right enough.

No; I can't keep it any longer.

Listen to me, sir, for I am goin' to make a strange and a fearful discovery; I know who it was that murdhered Sullivan; I'm in possession of it for near the last two-an'-twenty years; I have travelled every where; gone to England, to Wales, Scotland, an' America, but it was all of no use; the knowledge of the murdher! and the murdherer was here," he laid his! hand upon his heart as he spoke; "an' durin' all that time I had peace neither by night nor by day." His companion turned towards him with amazement, and truly his appearance was startling, if not frightful; he looked as it were into vacancy; his eyes had become hollow and full of terror; his complexion assumed the hue of ashes; his voice got weak and unsteady, and his limbs trembled excessively, whilst from every pore the perspiration came out, and ran down his ghastly visage in large drops.
"M'Gowan," said his companion, "this is a dreadful business.

As yet you have said nothing, and from what I see, I advise you to reflect before you proceed further in it.