"  Grieve  not  for  us,  Colonel,"  she  said,  "  we  share  but
the  common  woe.  Would  that  every  mourner  equally
shared  our  tibundant  consolations  !  We  are  chosen  to
suffer  in  the  cause  of  truth.  May  succeeding  generations
estimate  the  blessing,  for  the  preservation  of  which  we
gladly  endure  the  loss  of  all  earthly  things  ! "

"Amen!"  he  ejaculated.  "The  Protestant  cause  is
the  cause  of  posterity;  and  we  are  cementing  with  our
dearest  blood,  bulwarks  which  they  will  value  and  main-
tain."

Before  the  sun  had  reached  his  meridian  height,  a  long
and  mournful  procession  conveyed  to  the  cathedral  the
mortal  remains  of  Henry  Baker,  in  whom  the  citizens
had  lost  a  valuable  friend.  He  was  united  with  Walker
in  the  government  of  Deny,  and  generally  beloved.  A
solemn  funeral  service  was  performed,  a  sermon  delivered
on  the  occasion,  and  groups  of  mournei-s  surrounding
their  respective  dead,  collected  as  usual  for  interment
near  the  door,  listened  with  deep  interest  to  a  theme  bu*
too  widely  applicable.  Ellen's  bier  was,  by  Murray'*
command,  bi'ought  near  the  governor's;  and  among  the
haggard  countenances  assembled,  none  excited  more  com-
miseration than  the  venerable  trio  attached  to  it,  Shane,


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Basil,  and  the  Lady  of  M'Alister.  Magrath  involun-
tarily accompanied  them,  and  joined  in  the  service  of  the
church,  having  fulfilled  las  self-imposed  task  of  digging  a
grave  unusually  deep,  beside  that  of  the  two  fii^t  victims ;
and  here,  after  depositing  Baker  in  the  vault,  they  bore
the  corpse  of  Ellen  to  its  peaceful  resting-place.
