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120 it just like that. I was in Macroom one day with Nell, and she pointed him out to me, and upon my word, when I saw him it made me shudder. There he was grey and strong, walking the street as boldly as if he had never done such a deed. I couldn't help staring hard at his right hand. He noticed me looking at that hand, and the villain got blue in the face. I was dying to get away out of his sight, I can tell you.

—Why, anybody would think, by what you say, Abbie, that it is the guilty people that mostly go free, and that it is the honest people that are hanged. The old man west at Rathmore was hanged, but the people who hanged him were not hanged. The MacCarthys were hanged,