Thus — Jones,  who  gave  me  his  aid  upon  the  trial — "

"  Do  not  speak  of  him.  Sir,"  said  Hammond,  in  a  voice  of  agitation ;
"he  is  one  who  has  sullied  an  order  that  has  hitherto  been  almost
without  a  stain.  There  is  but  too  much  reason  to  think  that  he  was
bribed  to  destroy  you.  His  whole  line  of  cross-examination  on  the
trial  was  artfully  devised  to  develope  whatever  might  injure  you  ;  but  the
treachery  turned  upon  the  men  who  planned  it.  The  Attorney- General
saw  it,  and  the  Court  also.     It  was  this  saved  you.'*

Cashel  sat  powerless  and  speechless  at  "this  disclosure.  It  seemed  to
fill  up  in  his  mind  the  cup  of  iniquity,  and  he  never  moved  nor  uttered
a  word  as  he  listened.
"  Jones  you  will  never  see  again.  The  Bar  of  some  other  land  across
the  sea  may  receive  him,  but  there  is  not  one  here  would  stoop  to  be  his
colleague.  But  now  for  others  more  important.  I  will  this  day  obtain
the  Judge's  notes  of  the  trial,  and  give  the  whole  case  the  deepest  con-
sideration. Inquiry  shall  be  set  on  foot  as  to  Keane,  with  whom  he  has
gone,  and  in  what  direction.  Linton,  too,  must  be  watched  ;  the  report
is  that  he  lies  dangerously  ill  at  his  country  house,  but  that  story  may
be  invented  to  gain  time."

Cashel  could  scarcely  avoid  a  smile  at  the  rapidity  with  which  the
lawyer  detailed  his  plan  of  operation,  and  threw  out,  as  he  went,  the
signs  of  distrust  so  characteristic  of  his  craft.  As  for  himself,  he  was
enjoined  to  remain  in  the  very  strictest  privacy — to  see  no  one,  nor  even
to  leave  the  house,  except  after  nightfall.
