word were lost.

"I knew your scheme about the Papists, Tony; I guessed what you were at
then. I was to have emancipated you!"

A wild laugh broke from him, and he went on,--

"Just fancy the old trumpeter's face, that hangs up in the dinner-room
at Castle Carew! Imagine the look he would bestow on his descendant as I
sat down to table. Faith! Old Noll himself would have jumped out of the
canvas at the tidings. If you cannot strain your fancy that far, Tony,
think what your own father would have said were his degenerate son to
be satisfied with lawful interest!--imagine him sorrowing over the lost
precepts of his house!"

"There; I'll close the curtains, and leave you to take a sleep," said
Fagan.

"But I have no time for this, man," cried the other, again starting up;
"I must be up and away. You must find some place of concealment for me
till I can reach the Continent. Understand me well, Fagan, I cannot, I
will not, make a defence; as little am I disposed to die like a felon!
There's the whole of it! Happily, if the worst should come, Tony, the
disgrace dies with me; that's something,--eh?"

"You will make yourself far worse by giving way to this excitement, Mr.
Carew; you must try and compose yourself."

"So I will, Fagan; I'll be as obedient as you wish. Only tell me that
you will watch for my safety, assure me of that, and I 'm content."

As though the very words he had just uttered had brought a soothing
influence to his mind, he had scarcely finished speaking when he fell
off into a deep sleep, unbroken by even a dream. Fagan stood long enough
at the bedside to assure himself that all was quiet, and then left the
room, locking the door as he passed out, and taking the key with him.

CHAPTER XV. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

In these memoirs of my father, I have either derived my information from
the verbal accounts of his friends and contemporaries, or taken it from
his own letters and papers. Many things have I omitted, as irrelevant to
his story, which, in themselves, might not have been devoid of interest;
and of some others, the meaning and purport being somewhat obscure,
I have abstained from all mention. I make this apology for the
incompleteness of my narrative; and the reader will probably accept
my excuses the more willingly since he is spared the infliction of my
discursiveness on topics only secondary and adventitious.

I now, however, come to a period the most eventful of his story, but,