"And, now that is admitted, I will prove his villany and falsehood. Philip Cornbury, do you know this paper?" cried Nancy, taking out of her bosom the agreement signed by Vanslyperken, which she had picked up on the night when Cornbury had torn it up and thrown it away. "Do you know this paper, I ask you? Read it, sir," continued Nancy, handing it over to the leader of the smugglers. The paper was read, and the inflexible countenance of the leader turned towards Cornbury,--who saw his doom. "Go in, Nancy Corbett, and let no women appear till all is over." "Liar!" said Nancy, spitting on the ground as she passed by Cornbury. "Bind his eyes, and lead him to the western edge," said the leader. "Philip Cornbury, you have but few minutes to live. In mercy, you may see the holy father, if you wish it." "I'm no d----d papist," replied Cornbury, in a sulky tone. "Lead him on then." Cornbury was led to the western edge of the flat, where the cliff was most high and precipitous, and then made to kneel down. "Fitzpatrick," said the leader, pointing to the condemned. Fitzpatrick walked up to the kneeling man with his loaded pistol, and then the others, who had led Cornbury to the edge of the cliff, retired. Fitzpatrick cocked the lock. "Would you like to say, 'God have mercy on my treacherous sinful sowl,' or anything short and sweet like that?" said Fitzpatrick; "if so, I'll wait a couple of seconds more for your convanience, Philip Cornbury." Cornbury made no reply. Fitzpatrick put the pistol to his ear, the ball whizzed through his brain, the body half raised itself from its knees with a strong muscular action, and then toppled over and disappeared down the side of the precipice. "It's to be hoped that the next time you lave this world, Master Cornbury, it will be in a purliter sort of manner. A civil question demands a civil answer anyhow," said Fitzpatrick, coolly rejoining the other men. Chapter XVIII The whole of which has been fudged out of the History of England, and will therefore be quite new to the majority of our readers.