"
"I thank God for it," she replied, and this closed their conversation.
There is little now to be added to our narrative. We need scarcely
assure our readers that Charles Lindsay and Alice Goodwin were in due
time made happy, and that Ferdora O'Connor, who had been long attached
to Maria Lindsay, was soon enabled to call her his beloved wife.
The devilish old herbalist, and his equally devilish niece, together
with the conjurer and forger, who had assumed the character of the
Black Spectre, were all hanged, through the instrumentality of Valentine
Greatrakes, who had acquired so many testimonies of their villainy and
their crimes as enabled him, in conjunction with the other magistrates
of the county, to obtain such a body of evidence against them as no jury
could withstand. It was, probably, well for Woodward that the middogue
of the outlaw prevented him from sharing the same fate, and dying a
death of public disgrace.
Need we say that honest Barney Casey was rewarded by the love of Sarah
Sullivan, who, soon after their marriage, was made housekeeper in
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