were secured within shackles, which were connected by a chain, at
the distance of about four feet, with a large iron ring, which
travelled upon the bar we have described. Thus a prisoner might
shuffle along the length of the bar from one side of the room to
another, but could not retreat farther from it in any other
direction than the brief length of the chain admitted. When his
feet had been thus secured, the keeper removed his handcuffs and
left his person at liberty in other respects. A pallet-bed was
placed close to the bar of iron, so that the shackled prisoner
might lie down at pleasure, still fastened to the iron bar in the
manner described.

Hatteraick had not been long in this place of confinement before
Glossin arrived at the same prison-house. In respect to his
comparative rank and education, he was not ironed, but placed in a
decent apartment, under the inspection of Mac-Guffog, who, since
the destruction of the bridewell of Portanferry by the mob, had
acted here as an under-turnkey. When Glossin was enclosed within
this room, and had solitude and leisure to calculate all the
chances against him and in his favour, he could not prevail upon
himself to consider the game as desperate.

'The estate is lost,' he said, 'that must go; and, between
Pleydell and Mac-Morlan, they'll cut down my claim on it to a
trifle. My character--but if I get off with life and liberty I'll
win money yet and varnish that over again. I knew not of the
gauger's job until the rascal had done the deed, and, though I had
some advantage by the contraband, that is no felony. But the
kidnapping of the boy--there they touch me closer. Let me see.
This Bertram was a child at the time; his evidence must be