nst Cashel, whose features, in the woodcut,
would in themselves have made a formidable indictment.

Of the Kennyfecks, few troubled themselves with even a casual inquiry:
except the fact that a fashionable physician had been sent for to
Dublin, little was known about them. But where was Linton all this
while? Some averred that he had set out for the capital, to obtain
the highest legal assistance for his friend; others, that he was so
overwhelmed by the terrible calamity as to have fallen into a state
of fatuous insensibility. None, however, could really give any correct
account of him; he had left Tubbermore, but in what direction none could
tell.

As the day wore on, a heavy rain began to fall; and of those who still
remained in the house, little knots of two and three assembled at the
windows, to watch for the arrival of their wished-for "posters," or
to speculate upon the weather. Another source of speculation there was
besides. Some hours before, a magistrate, accompanied by a group of
ill-dressed and vulgar-looking men, had been seen to pass the house,
and take the path which led to the Gap of Ennismore. These formed the
inquest, who were to inquire into the circumstances of the crime, and
whose verdict, however unimportant in a strictly legal sense, was looked
for with considerable impatience by some of the company. To judge from
the anxious looks that were directed towards the mountain road, or the
piercing glances which at times were given through telescopes in that
direction, one would have augured that some, at least, of those there,
were not destitute of sympathy for him whose guests they had been, and
beneath whose roof they still lingered. A very few words of those
that passed between them will best answer how this impression is well
founded.

"Have you sent your groom off, Upton?" asked Frobisher, as he stood
with a coffee-cup in his hand at the window.

"Yes, he passed the window full half an hour ago."

"They are confoundedly tedious," said Jennings, half suppressing a
yawn. "I thought those kind of fellows just gave a look at the body, and
pronounced their verdict at once."

"So they do when it's one of their own class; but in the case of a
gentleman they take a prodigious interest in examining his watch and
his purse and his pocket-book; and, in fact, it is a grand occasion for
prying as far as possible into his private concerns."

"I 'll double our bet, Upton, if you like," said Frobisher, la