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Miss MacDermot was then seized and dragged back into the room, where her uncle was still standing by the fire. He took no notice of her tears and entreaties, but allowed her to be forced into the hall, where a crowd of Flinn's friends and followers were assembled. They set her on a pillion behind the principal mask.
He made no allusion whatever to Father John and Tony McKeon, and then ended by saying, that "the unexpected and melancholy death of Miss Macdermot was an occurrence which could not but fill the breast of every one present with most profound sympathy for the prisoner, that he should abstain from saying a word which might be unnecessarily disagreeable or painful to the feelings of any one but that the jury must feel that the prisoner would lose nothing from the loss of her evidence.
Brown, were standing by, that "he had lately been giving a great deal of very close attention to that very distressing case of young Mr. Macdermot; he thought it was the most melancholy and heartrending case he had ever known.
MacDermot was the son of respectable parents; but from being a wild, ungovernable boy, he became a bad, vicious man, and early abandoned the parental roof to enlist for a soldier. He was soon tired of his new profession, and, deserting from his regiment, escaped detection, and emigrated to Canada.
"Thady," said old Macdermot, as he sat eating stirabout and thick milk, over a great turf fire, one morning about the beginning of October, "Thady, will you be getting the money out of them born divils this turn, and they owing it, some two, some three years this November, bad cess to them for tenants?
"'She did not tell us where she was going; but said that, as you were out, it would be a good opportunity of visiting an old friend. "'When did she say she would be back? "'We expected her last night, said Grace. "'Something must have happened to the girl, Macdermot, turning to me. 'Put the saddle on my riding horse. I will go among the neighbours, and inquire if they have seen her.
In course we do. Mary wouldn't be married av he warn't to the fore." "Indeed! I didn't know you'd so much respect for Mr. Macdermot as that." "Is it for the masthur, Captain?" "For the matter of that, Brady, you wouldn't much mind how many masters you had if they all paid you, I'm thinking."
"You see, Macdermot," he said in a half whisper, "it is impossible to get your father to listen to me; and therefore the responsibility must rest upon you as to advising him what he'd better do.
His rancour against Thady was unabated. Unless young Macdermot were hung he would be unable to avenge the mutilated stump which crippled all his exertions, and now rendered his existence miserable.
Flannelly had promised to make over that property to him; he then denied that any conversation had passed between him and Brady as to the nature of the evidence the latter was to give at the trial, or that he had expressed any anxiety on any occasion that a verdict might be given against the prisoner; he confessed that he might, in conversation, have attributed the loss of his foot to the influence of the prisoner; but he could not remember that he had ever said that Macdermot should pay for it with his life.
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