you!"

When he was finally removed, she seemed to lose all power, and but
for the arm of a bystander would have fallen to the ground. It was not
without assistance that she was at length enabled to reach her cabin.

It is strange how man's feelings and powers are swayed by outward
circumstances, and how his pride and strength may be entirely overcome
by disheartening appearances! So it was with Owen: although constantly
visited in prison by his faithful wife--although conscious of his
own innocence--and although daily receiving assurances of hope from a
numerous circle of friends--yet still his spirit drooped; the gloom of
imprisonment, the idea of danger, the ignominy of public execution and
all the horrors of innocent conviction, gradually wore away his mental
strength; and when the assize time approached, he was but a thin shadow
of the former bluff, healthy Owen Duncan. In so short a time as this,
can care and harrowing thought exercise its influence on the human
frame!

Never was there a finer or more heavenly morning than that which ushered
in the day of trial. The court-house was crowded to suffocation, the mob
outside fearfully numerous, and never before, perhaps, was Ennis in such
a state of feverish excitement. Daly's murder was as nought in the minds
of all, in comparison with Duncan's accusation. Alas! the former was an
occurrence of too frequent repetition, to be very much thought of;
but the latter--namely, Owen's being suspected--was a subject of
the extremest wonder. His former high character--his sobriety--his
quietness, and his being a native of the town, in some measure accounted
for this latter feeling; and there was an inward conviction in most
men's minds, that he was guiltless of the crime for which he was