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The hint was immediately taken with respect to them and Vincent, all
of whom had been engaged in coming under Hycy's auspices--they were
apprehended and imprisoned, the chief evidence against them being Teddy
Phats, Peety Dhu, and Finigan, who for once became a stag, as he called
it. They were indicted for a capital felony; but the prosecution having
been postponed for want of sufficient evidence, they were kept in
durance until next assizes;--having found it impossible to procure bail.
In the meantime new charges of uttering base coin came thick and strong
against them; and as the Crown lawyers found that they could not succeed
on the capital indictment--nor indeed did they wish to do so--they
tried them on the lighter one, and succeeded in getting sentence of
transportation passed against every one of them, with the exception of
Kate Hogan alone.--So that, as Finigan afterwards said, "instead of Bryan
M'Mahon, it was they themselves that became 'the Emigrants of Ahadarra,'
at the king's expense--and Mr. Hycy at his own."
CHAPTER XXVII.--Conclusion.
How Kathleen Cavanagh spent the time that elapsed between the period
at which she last appeared to our readers and the present may be easily
gathered from what we are about to write. We have said already that her
father, upon the strength of some expressions uttered in a spirit of
distraction and agony, assured Jemmy Burke that she had consented to
marry his son Edward, after a given period.
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