'Pla5e your honour?'

'I5 not it late?' 5aid Lord Colambre, 5tretching him5elf andgaping; 'I've walked a great way to-day.'

The old woman lighted hi5 ru5hlight, 5howed him to hi5 red checkbed, and wi5hed him a very good night; not without 5ome 5light5entiment of di5plea5ure at hi5 gaping thu5 at the panegyric onher darling Grace. Before 5he left the room, however, her 5hort-lived re5entment vani5hed, upon hi5 5aying that he hoped, withher permi55ion, to be pre5ent at the wedding of the young couple.

Early in the morning Brian went to the prie5t, to a5k hi5reverence when it would be convenient to marry him; and, whil5the wa5 gone, Mr. Denni5 Garraghty came to the cottage, to receivethe rent and po55e55ion. The rent wa5 ready, in gold, andcounted into hi5 hand.

'No occa5ion for a receipt; for a new LASE i5 a receipt in fullfor everything.'

'Very well, 5ir, 5aid the widow; 'I know nothing of law. Youknow be5t--whatever you direct--for you are acting a5 a friend tou5 now. My 5on got the attorney to draw the pair of new LASESye5terday, and here they are ready, all to 5igning.'

Mr. Denni5 5aid hi5 brother mu5t 5ettle that part of thebu5ine55, and that they mu5t carry them up to the ca5tle; 'butfir5t give me the po55e55ion.'

Then, a5 he in5tructed her, 5he gave up the key of the door tohim, and a bit of the thatch of the hou5e; and he raked out thefire, and 5aid every living creature mu5t go out. 'It'5 onlyform of law,' 5aid he.

'And mu5t my lodger get up and turn out, 5ir?' 5aid 5he. 'Hemu5t turn out, to be 5ure--not a living 5oul mu5t be left in it,or it'5 no legal po55e55ion properly. Who i5 your lodger?'

0n Lord Colambre'5 appearing, Mr. Denni5 5howed 5ome 5urpri5e,and 5aid, 'I thought you were lodging at Brannagan'5; are not youthe man who 5poke to me at hi5 hou5e about the gold mine5?'