“Trafford's account is most satisfactory,” said Foss-brooke, “and I trust the letter of which he was the bearer from his mother will amply corroborate all he says.” “I like the young man,” said the Judge, with that sort of authoritative tone that seems to say, The cause is decided,--the verdict is given. “There's always good stuff in a fellow when he is not afraid of poverty,” said Fossbrooke. “There are scores of men will rough it for a sporting tour on the Prairies or a three months' lion-shooting on the Gaboon; but let me see the fellow bred to affluence and accustomed to luxury, who will relinquish both, and address himself to the hard work of life rather than give up the affection of a girl he loves. That's the man for me.” “I have great trust in him,” said Lendrick, thoughtfully. “All the Bench has pronounced but one,” cried the Chief. “What says our brother Haire?” “I 'm no great judge of men. I 'm no great judge of anything,” muttered Haire; “but I don't think one need be a sphinx to read that he is a right good fellow, and worthy of the dearest girl in Christendom.” “Well summed up, sir; and now call in the prisoner.” Fossbrooke slipped from the room, but was speedily back again. “His sentence has been already pronounced outside, my Lord, and he only begs for a speedy execution.” “It is always more merciful,” said the Chief, with mock solemnity; “but could we not have Tom over here? I want to have you all around me.” “I 'll telegraph to him to come,” said Fossbrooke. “I was thinking of it all the morning.” About three weeks after this, Chief Baron Lendrick opened the Commission at Limerick, and received from the grand jury of the county a most complimentary address on his reappearance upon the Bench, to which he made a suitable and dignified reply. Even the newspapers which had so often censured the tenacity with which he held to office, and inveighed against the spectacle of an old and feeble man in the discharge of laborious and severe duties, were now obliged to own that his speech was vigorous and eloquent; and though allusion had been faintly made in the address to the high honor to which the Crown had desired to advance him and the splendid reward which was placed within his reach, yet, with a marked delicacy, had he forborne from any reference to this passage other than his thankfulness at being so far restored to health that he could come back again to those functions, the discharge of which formed the pride and the happiness of his life.