A young friend of mine, who had all my trust, and justified it by unshaken fidelity through many a trial, was despatched to the country to procure assistance, but he applied to the wrong source, and, deluded by the character of him to whom he had spoken, returned under the mistaken conviction that from the country nothing was to be expected.
This decided Mr.O'Brien and his friends.

He had been joined at Cashel by P.J.Smyth, and James Cantwell, now in the United States, by James Stephens, now at Paris, and by Patrick O'Donohoe, now sharing the doom of his chief.

As an episode in this history, the fate of Mr.O'Donohoe is singular and startling.

He was much relied on by his friends in the Confederation, and was entrusted with the dispatches to Mr.O'Brien.

He proceeded on his mission to Kilkenny, and there applied to one of the clubs.