erry and thrust his head into Diarmid's bosom as he
lay asleep.

At that Diarmid awoke and sprang up and woke Grania, and told her that
Bran had come, which was a token that Fionn himself was coming. 'Fly
then,' said Grania; but Diarmid would not fly. 'He may take me now,'
said he, 'seeing he must take me some time.' At his words Grania shook
with fear, and Bran departed.

All this while the friends of Diarmid took counsel together, and they
dreaded lest Bran had not found them, and they resolved to give them
another warning. So they bade the henchman Feargus to give three
shouts, for every shout could be heard over three counties. And
Diarmid heard them, and awoke Grania, and told her that it was a
warning they had sent him of Fionn. 'Then take that warning,' said
she. 'I will not,' answered Diarmid, 'but will stay in this wood till
Fionn comes.' And Grania trembled when she heard him.

By-and-by the trackers came back to Fionn with news that they had seen
Diarmid and Grania, and though Ossian and Diarmid's friends tried to
persuade Fionn that the men had been mistaken, Fionn was not to be
deceived. 'Well did I know the meaning of the three shouts of Feargus,
and why you sent Bran, my own hound, away. But it shall profit him
nothing, for Diarmid shall not leave Derry till he has paid me for
every slight he has put upon me.'

'Great foolishness it is of you, O Fionn,' said Oscar, 'to think that
Diarmid would stay in this plain waiting to have his head taken from
him.'

'Who else would have cut down the trees, and have made a palisade of
them, and cut seven doors in it? Speak, O Diarmid, is the truth with
me or with Oscar?'

'With you, O Fionn,' said Diarmid, 'and truly I and Grania are here.'

When he heard this, Fionn bade his men surround Diarmid and take him,
and Diarmid rose up and kissed Grania three times in presence of Fionn
and his men, and Fionn, seeing that, swore that Diarmid should pay for
those kisses with his head.

But Angus, the foster-father of Diarmid, knew in what straits his
foster-son was, and he stole secretly to the place where Diarmid was
hidden with Grania, and asked him what he had done to bring his head
into such danger. 'This,' said Diarmid; 'Grania, the daughter of
Cormac, King of Erin, has fled with me against my will to escape
marriage with Fionn.'

'Then let one of you come under my mantle,' answered Angus, 'and I
will carry you out of your prison.'

'Take Grania,' answered