few hundred yards to the right of that there is
a sort of break in the rocks, and there is a track goes down there.
You won't see it onless you look close for it, and it gets lost a
little way down, becase the rocks are all broken about and heaped on
each other. It's down there they go. There's always a man on watch not
far from the top; and there is generally a gossoon from their friends
here somewhere at the edge of the bog behind, who would run forward
and tell the man on watch if he saw any soldiers coming from here. So
you will have to be mighty careful; but they are down there, sure
enough, somewhere.

"Denis tould me there was no chance of their being taken, for they
have got a little boat hid away down among the rocks by the water, and
if the alarm was given they would make off in that. I can't tell you
any more than that, you honor; but I should think that may be enough
to help you to find them."

"I should think so too, Mrs. Moore. And what do you propose doing
yourself?"

"I shall go off, sir, at once. Folk have been wondering at me, and
asking where I came from and what I was doing here, and I want to get
away. If it came to the Red Captain's ears there was a woman about he
might guess it was me, and if he did he would like enough shoot Denis
and make away. I can't see as I can do any good by stopping, and I may
do harm; so I will go over to Dunmanway and stop there till I hear
what your honor has done. If I find Denis has got hurted I shall come
back, if not I shall go home to the farm. Maybe your honor will tell
him I shall be expecting him there."

Captain O'Connor accompanied her outside to see that no one spoke to
her, and when he saw her disappear in the darkness he returned to the
room.

"I think you have had a lucky escape, Conway," he said as he entered.
"The matter is explained now about your being watched and questioned,
and it is very lucky that they did not quite make up their minds you
were a spy; for if they had you may be sure they would have had no
more hesitation in putting an ounce of lead into you, and throwing you
over the cliff, than they would in shooting a sparrow. Well, this is
an important piece of news. The authorities have for a long time been
trying to lay their hands on this scoundrel and his gang, and if we
can catch him it will be a feather in our caps, for he has defied all
their efforts for the last three years. Now, we must arrange the line
of battle, how it is to c