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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Why, that it was from his hand he received the wound that may be his death. That, I think, is sufficient to make you exert yourself; and indeed it is, in my opinion, both a shame and a scandal that the subject has not been taken up with more energy by the magistracy of the country." "But who can tell," replied Lindsay, "whether it was Shawn-na-Middogue that stabbed Charles?
"Well, you are aware that my uncle was the most successful and celebrated tory-hunter of his day, and rendered important services to the government in that capacity services which have been liberally rewarded." "I am aware of it, Miss Riddle." "But you are not aware, as I am, that this same Shawn-na-Middogue saved my uncle's life and mine on the night before last?" "How could I, Miss Riddle?"
"Will you take a friend's advice?" replied Barney: "we all of us wish, of coorse, to die a Christian death upon our beds, that we may think of the sins we have committed, and ask the pardon of our Saviour and inthersessor for them. I say, then, if you wish to die such a death, and to have time to repent of your sins, avoid coming across Shawn-na-Middogue above all men in the world.
"O!" she exclaimed, in her woful solitude and utter desolation, "if I only had the forgiveness of my father and mother I could die happy; but now I feel that death is upon me, and I must die alone." A footstep was heard, and it relieved her. "Oh! this is Caterine," she said, "with the child." The door opened, and the young tory, Shawn-na-Middogue, entered.
"She yes, and I feel that, unless we can get Shawn-na-Middogue taken off by some means or other, your life will not, cannot, be safe." "She won't betray him, then? But I need not ask, for I have pressed her upon that matter before." "She is very right in not doing so," replied the conjurer; "because, if she did, the consequence would be destruction to herself and her family.
The unfortunate girl, alarmed at the tragic incident of that woful night, and impressed with a belief that Charles Lindsay had been murdered by Shawn-na-Middogue, had betaken herself to some place of concealment which no search on behalf of her friends could discover. In fact, her disappearance was involved in a mystery as deep as the alarm and distress it occasioned.
Lindsay merely said, "If my son Woodward could render you any assistance, I am sure he would feel great pleasure in doing so, notwithstanding that it was this same Shawn-na-Middogue who, perhaps, has murdered his brother, for he is by no means out of danger." "What he? Shawn-na-Middogue! Have you any proof of that?" "Not positive or legal proof, my lord, but! at least a strong moral certainty.
"I have one question to ask you," proceeded Barney, "and it is this when did you see or spake with Shawn-na-Middogue?" "Not since that unfortunate night." "Well, all I can tell you is this that Masther Charles had as much to do with the ruin of your daughter as the king of Jerusalem. Take my word for that. He is not the stuff that such a villain is made of, but I suspect who is."
She here detailed at further length, the conversation which she had with Shawn-na-Middogue; mentioned the fact, which had somehow become well known, of his having wrought the ruin of Grace Davoren, and concluded by stating that, notwithstanding his gentlemanly manners and deportment, he was unworthy either the notice or regard of any respectable female.
"I have; and he imposed it on me as a condition that I should mention to you an enterprise on which I am bent." "An enterprise! Pray, what is it?" "Why, a tory-hunt; I am going to hunt down Shawn-na-Middogue, as he is called, and I think it will be rendering the country a service to get rid of him." Miss Riddle's face got pale as ashes; and she looked earnestly and solemnly into Woodward's face.
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