"Well, sir?"
"That's all," replied Adair.
"Do you know nothing about the court-martial?" asked Robinson.
"Nothing, except that as the Major wasn't killed at the Ford, it was thought best to have a trial, wherein James Curry and Hugh Habershaw, as I was told, had agreed to swear against the Major's life."
"And were paid for it?"
"It was upon a consideration, in course," replied Adair.
"And Captain St. Jermyn contrived this?"
"It was said," answered Adair, "that the captain left it all to Curry, and rather seemed to take Major Butler's side himself at the trial. He didn't want to be known in the business!"
"Where is this Captain St. Jermyn?" demanded many voices.
This interrogatory was followed by the rush of the party towards the quarter in which the prisoners were assembled, and, after a lapse of time which seemed incredibly short for the performance of the deed, the unhappy victim of this tumultuary wrath was seen struggling in the agonies of death, as he hung from one of the boughs of the same tree which had supplied the means of the other executions.