How Lord Dunleigh obtained admission into the sect as plain Henry
Donnelly is a matter of conjecture with the Londongrove
Friends. The deception which had been practised upon them--
although it was perhaps less complete than they imagined--left a
soreness of feeling behind it. The matter was hushed up after the
departure of the family, and one might now live for years in the
neighborhood without hearing the story. How the shrewd plan was
carried out by Lord Dunleigh and his family, we have already
learned. O'Neil, left on the estate, in the north of Ireland, did
his part with equal fidelity. He not only filled up the gaps made
by his master's early profuseness, but found means to move the
sympathies of a cousin of the latter--a rich, eccentric old
bachelor, who had long been estranged by a family quarrel. To this
cousin he finally confided the character of the exile, and at a
lucky time; for the cousin's will was altered in Lord Dunleigh's
favor, and he died before his mood of reconciliation passed away.
Now, the estate was not only unencumbered, but there was a handsome
surplus in the hands of the Dublin bankers.
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