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to think that we have got hold of the wrong 

 people." 



" Not a bit of it, not a bit of it," quickly 

 rejoined the Stipendiary. " Depend upon it, 

 Mr. Michael and all his worthy co-patriots 

 were in the plot." 



" But you have not yet got one tittle of 

 evidence to show that they were." 



" Never mind about that ; we'll have evi- 

 dence enough. I think they should be com- 

 mitted at once." 



The Englishmen smiled. However, the 

 county magistrates took a more favourable 

 view of the case, and overruled the opinion 

 of their chairman, and the prisoners were 

 acquitted and discharged accordingly. 



