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The Felon’s Track

CHAPTER VII
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We remained for hours, and remained in vain.

At last one only of the ten arrived.

He told us that at the chapel the Rev.Patrick Laffan read the names of the proscribed traitors for whose persons a reward was offered....
We continued on the mountain during the remainder of the day; and toward evening about fifty men came up to us, who, one and all, expressed the utmost indignation at what had happened.

Once more our hopes revived.

If Mr.O'Brien could avoid arrest for a few weeks only, we expected that a sense of shame would sting the country to desperate exertion.
After night-fall we descended, and slept at a farmer's house at the southern base of the mountain, where we were most kindly entertained and sedulously guarded.


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