-yet had been left too well locked and bolted in to allow of their emancipating themselves from durance. Sir William scanned over with inquiring eye the countenances that appeared, and at length his glance fixed ominously upon one.

"Two blows more, and it yields," he cried to Shawn-a-Gow, who, wielding a great sledge, battered at the ponderous door ; --" quick! quick! I see him.”

The two prescribed blows followed, and door and lock and bolt gave way in shivers. There was a wild shout within, and then a rush of the enfranchised captives, some hastening to enrol themselves, in revenge against their enemies, amongst the victorious insurgents; others to indulge in the general licentiousness. The pale-faced wretch upon whom Sir William had bent his fateful glance, came forward. On the threshold he started back, and, hastily pulling his hat over his brows, sought to mingle unobserved with the general throng. But the watchful eye of the tiger instantly marked him out, and as instantly the grasp of his former master was on his collar. The terrified man seemed confounded into nonentity.

"This is the fellow-this is Brown," said

Sir William, addressing Shawn-a-Gow-" this is the Orange-traitor and informer!"

"Pitch him to us!" growled the stern smith.

“Oh, master, master! only listen to me !"gasped the victim, vainly endeavouring to sink upon his knees; but the strong arm of his indignant master upheld him; and then, swinging him round, he flung him towards Shawn-a-Gow, and he was dead ere he fell to the ground-four pikes had entered his cringing body.

"Could iron is informer's hire," remarked the father of Tom Delouchery, as he withdrew his reeking weapon; and he and his fellowexecutioners hastily departed to rejoin the unbridled rioting, of which the fierce shouts reached them from every quarter, and which they had only left in obedience to the requests of so important a leader as the young Baronet.

"And this done," soliloquized Sir William, as, left alone with the corse of his former servant, he wiped his brow from the soil of moisture, of dust, and of blood," this done-this villain punished-still I must speed to seek my wife."

His horse stood near; and, actively and has tily mounting, he made his way, with as much

speed as the intervening throngs would allow, to an inn at which he had heard Eliza Hartley and her aunt had put up the previous night. Here additional excitement to his already exasperated mood awaited him. The inn had been invaded by an unbridled crowd of riotous insurgents; and, as he heard them shouting forth their clamours and threats for liquor, and heavily clattering from room to room, and banging doors and breaking windows, obviously to exercise their newly acquired privilege of doing what they liked in a situation they had once never dreamt of attaining, the alarmed husband naturally shuddered at the idea, that his sensitive and unprotected bride might already have been exposed to the mercy of such boisterous intruders.

He flung himself from his jaded horse, burst through the rabble rout, and was very near experiencing a rough acceptance, only that he chanced to be recognized by one of their noisy set. He called loudly for the landlord, but was quickly answered that "the murtherin' Orangeman took to the run, just in time to miss a reckonin' long scored against him, and that he would think worse of than the most robbin' reckonin' himself ever once scored against a

lodger;"-from which Sir William inferred, that the conscious proprietor, being of the opposite party, had, along with almost all the other Protestant inhabitants of the town, joined or followed the garrison on their retreat to Wexford.

Thus, without a clue to guide him in his search after his bride, the young Baronet rushed from room to room, vainly calling upon her name. In a principal bed-room, after exploring many others, he found a group of "pikemen," loud in ribald mirth, as they pressed forward and gaped over each others' shoulders, to view something held by the leader of their pillaging; and, bursting on, Sir William snatched at his own miniature, the glass of which the man just then held up to view, brightening, or rather dimming it, with the sleeve of his rough frieze coat, as he cried out

"By gonnies! an' sure my fort'n is made, for good-an'-all: I'll turn mysef into a gallanty showman-a penny a-piece to see the rareeshow, boys!—a penny apiece!" he drew back his hand as Sir William endeavoured to seize the miniature" Masther, asy, asy; every man's loock is his fort'n: d'you want to see the show for nothin', Sir ?”

"That picture is mine, my good fellow ;give it me-give it-"

"Make that out, if you can: didn't I find it here, afore it was lost?"

"Come, come!" flinging him money-" give it now."

--

"Here, then, faith, an' I wish you joy o' your bargain, by the pike in my hand, I wouldn't swap the half of this for a score of 'em : an', as you 're in the humour," he continued, winking on his companions, "who knows bud you'd buy another thing or two that fell in my way? Here's a glove wouldn't go on my thumb; an' here's a ring I'd give my sweetheart, only it's about a mile an' a half too narrow for Peg's little finger. Will you offer?"

"Double their value!" answered Sir William, his hand trembling with eagerness to possess his bride's right-hand glove, and the wedding-ring he had, the previous morning put on her finger.

"Tare-an'-age!" resumed the collector of curiosities, "maybe this, too, 'ud lie in your way? you can have it chape:" exhibiting a child's rattle he had somewhere picked up.

A loud laugh at his waggery was interrupted by a sudden and expressive shout in the street,