foresight, and the precaution he adopted against detection. Cassidy,
Connor's attorney, had ferreted out the very man from whom he purchased
the tinder-box, with a hope of proving that it was not the prisoner's
property but his own; yet this person, who remembered the transaction
very well, assured him that Flanagan said he procured it by the desire
of Fardorougha Donovan's son.

During his whole evidence, he never once raised his eye to look upon the
prisoner's face, until he was desired to identify him. He then turned
round, and, standing with the rod in his hand, looked for some moments
upon his victim. His dark brows got black as night, whilst his cheeks
were blanched to the hue of ashes--the white smile as before sat upon
his lips, and his eyes, in which there blazed the unsteady fire of a
treacherous and cowardly heart, sparkled with the red turbid glare of
triumph and vengeance. He laid the rod upon Connor's head, and they
gazed at each other face to face, exhibiting as striking a contrast as
could be witnessed. The latter stood erect and unshaken--his eye calmly
bent upon that of his foe, but with a spirit in it that seemed to him
alone by whom it was best understood, to strike dismay into the very
soul of falsehood within him. The villain's eyes could not withstand the
glance of Connor's--they fell, and his whole countenance assumed such a
blank and guilty stamp, that an old experienced barrister, who watched
them both, could not avoid saying, that if he had his will they should
exchange situations.

"I would not hang a dog," he whispered, "on that fellow's evidence--he
has guilt in his face."

When asked why he ran away on meeting Phil. Curtis, near O'Brien's
house, on their return that night, while Connor held his ground, he
replied that it was very natural he should run away, and not wish to
be seen after having assisted at such a crime. In reply to another
question, he said it was as natural that Connor should have ran away
also, and that he could not account for it, except by the fact that God
always occasions the guilty to commit some oversight, by which they
may be brought to punishment. These replies, apparently so rational and
satisfactory, convinced Connor's counsel that his case was hopeless, and
that no skill or ingenuity on their part could succeed in breaking down
Flanagan's evidence.

The next witness called was Phil. Curtis, whose testimony corroborated
Bartle's in every particular, and gave