anonymous information is correct. It now remains for me to find out
who the object of this attachment is. I have no doubt that he is in the
neighborhood; and, if so, I shall know how to manage him."

He then mounted his horse, and rode into Ballytrain, with what purpose
it is now unnecessary, we trust, to trouble the reader at farther
length.




CHAPTER V. Sir Thomas Gourlay fails in unmasking the Stranger

--Mysterious Conduct of Fenton


When Sir Thomas Gourlay, after the delay of better than an hour in town,
entered the coffee-room of the "Mitre," he was immediately attended by
the landlord himself.

"Who is this new guest you have got, landlord," inquired the
baronet--"They tell me he is a very mysterious gentleman, and that no
one can discover his name. Do! you know anything about him?"

"De'il a syllable, Sir Tammas," replied the landlord, who was a
northern--"How ir you, Counsellor Crackenfudge," he added, speaking
to a person who passed upstairs--"There he goes," proceeded Jack the
landlord--"a nice boy. But do you know, Sir Tammas, why he changed his
name to Crackenfudge?"