"through and fro."

She soon saw that all she had was gone, and concluded that Cunningham,
as he was absent from breakfast contrary to his wont, must be the thief.
The police got immediate notice; advertisements were issued, and rewards
offered, and in a day or two after Cunningham was arrested; but as none
of the money was found on his person, and as there was no direct
evidence of his guilt, the magistrate discharged him. The articles of
dress in her well-supplied wardrobe were detained, in payment of her
board bill, by the hotel keeper where she lodged in New York; and with
the few shillings that remained in her purse, she, with her children,
took passage on one of the Hudson River boats, hoping to make out
certain acquaintances of her husband, whom she heard were settled in the
vicinity of T----. The rest has been already told--namely, how she took
sick and died after great sufferings; how her children were left
destitute, and next to naked; how they were now reduced to the rank of
paupers, and secured within the precincts of the county house.

"Of all the things which we brought from home with us, we have nothing
of value now left, Bridget," said Paul, "but this silver crucifix, which
belonged to my grandfather. Glory be to God. Let us be glad that this
has been left," said he, kissing it with religious affection. "This is
all we have now left. Let us defend it."




CHAPTER VI.

THE COUNCIL.