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62 ae The ¢ Cine of aan © coat Ste mond and she had beer playmates from eariicst’ child- hood—lovers, I do believe, in later years. I know my daughter loved him, and I know that until the arrival of Lady Inez he spent nearly half of his time at my place. Then he left off coming, and very soon we heard he was engaged to be married to the Spanish lady. My daughter took the news very much to heart; she would not listen to the proposals of Mr. Morgan, who wished to make her his wife. On the day of her death, she left the house about nine o'clock in the morning, saying she was going fora walk. Inever saw her again until I saw her carried in dead. Morgan came about half-past ten or eleven and asked for her, waited awhile, and then left, saying he. would go in search of her. Lord Roderick came about two o'clock, looking very pale and excited, and told me he had found Kathleen drowned—her body floating in the boundary stream. Morgan and O’Moore carried her home. ‘Three weeks after the inquest, rummaging about among her things, I found a note hidden away in her room, in the writing of the prisoner, appointing a meet- ing at the boundary stream at ten o'clock. I can swear to the prisoner’s handwriting—it was I who taught him - to write. J am firmly convinced it was to that appoint- ment she went, and met her death.. She was incapable of committing suicide.’ ree estimony of Gerald Desmond: ing of the 18th of November. He said he was going fishing, and I was occupied nearly all day with my uncle, the Earl of Clontarf, looking over accounts, in his study. The prisoner quitted the castle about half- -past nine. It would take him fully half an hour to reach the boundary stream. I saw him next late in the afternoon. He came home looking pale and wild, and told us he had discoyered the dead body of Kathleen O’Neal in the boundary stream, whither he had gone to fish. He seemed very agitated, very excited, but I thought that natural; he and Kathleen had been old friends—lovers, perhaps, ina boy- and-girl way, in the past. The deceased loved him pas- sionately, I know. I also know she was intensely jealous, and once, in my hearing, threatened to go up to the castle — and d compel the Lady Inez to resign all right to her lover. Ae He was mine & before Be. was hers!” were her words. — fe 8 co mn ichee ae sa °y tY . S/d Ph y A! , = : ri sate 1 i - : r > * 4 ee § : * ; - - a? na , A ‘ aoe 4 Pe ) \ ivy } a4 . 5 - Aa) + : + > Ti md ‘ ‘~ ’ . oP ,. acai ee Me As ‘ae i- T ty : - J ar “4 ty AD ORY Ab 8 ah eee y: ee ee f he ad f f N é Peart 4 4 “,* > : om . r f Fe | Ls ‘ ; P . Te ahr ate ol) , \ bee | wn Pl Ae ee ee Pelt + 2 ais as Ran OP eek ew a/ ri? Taye & Al? hy Pew By oo ain - My cousin Roderick and I parted early. on the mofn- | 4 Ae Te ae ee ee ae