“What a probable story!” exclaimed Hycy; “and you kept it to yourself, like an honest girl as you are, until now!”
“Why, Mr. Burke,” said Vanston, quickly and rather sharply, “surely you can have no motive in impugning her evidence upon that subject?”
Hycy bit his lip, for he instantly felt that he had overshot himself by almost anticipating the charge, as if it were about to be made against himself;—“What I think improbable in it,” said Hycy, “is that she should, if in possession of the facts, keep them concealed so long.”
“Oh, never fear, Mr. Hycy, I'll soon make that plain enough,” she replied.
“But in the mean time,” said Chevydale, “will you state the names of those who did commit the robbery?”
“I will,” she replied.
“The whole truth, Nanny,” exclaimed Kate.
“It was Bat Hogan, then, that robbed Mr. Burke,” she replied; “and—and—”
“Out wid it,” said Kate.
“And who besides, my good girl?” inquired Vanston.