Cottage, where he Makes a most Ungallant
Mistake -- Return with Tidings of both
Mrs. Norton and Fenton--and Generously
Patronizes his Master

XXXVIII.--Anthony Corbet gives Important
Documents to the Stranger--An
Unpleasant Disclosure to Dunroe
--Norton catches a Tartar

XXXIX.--Fenton Recovered--The Mad-House

XL.--Lady Gourlay sees her Son

XLI.--Denouement





PREFACE.


The incidents upon which this book is founded seem to be extraordinary
and startling, but they are true; for, as Byron says, and as we all
know, "Truth is strange--stranger than Fiction." Mr. West, brother to
the late member from Dublin, communicated them to me exactly as they
occurred, and precisely as he communicated them, have I given them
to the reader, at least, as far as I can depend upon my memory. With
respect, however, to his facts, they related only to the family which is