Morton

Morton, would be highly gratifying to himself, Miss Henly," he observed; "and were I of his acquaintance, it should be my task to inform him of your good opinion."

Morton has not now to learn that," said Charlotte, simply, but dropping her eyes; "I have been the next door neighbour of George all my life, and have seen too much of his goodness of heart not to have expressed the same opinion often."

George Morton, the youth of whom such honourable mention has been made, was the son of a gentleman who had long resided in the next dwelling to Mr.

Henly, when George Morton entered the dining parlour, with the freedom of an old and favourite friend, and telling Mrs.

"Are you sure?" inquired Morton, looking at him sharply.

"Do you mean that girl Bridget Royce?" asked Morton, drawing his frosty brows together.

"There are other windows, aren't there?" asked Morton, "and a door, of course, somewhere round the corner?

Morton moved toward the window immediately in front of them, where the hidden outlaw had just snuffed the candle; Nolan, a little farther westward to the next window; while Wilson, followed by Macbride with the ladder, went round to the two windows at the back.

Morton had just placed himself in front of the nearest window, his broad shoulders.

"Michael O'Neill, I arrest you in the king's name for the murder of Francis Morton and James Nolan.