In the meantime call on me to-morrow with liberty from Shawn to attend your meeting, and we will both go there together." "Very well," replied his brother, "I will do so." The next night was one of tolerably clear moonlight; and about the hour of twelve or one o'clock some twenty or twenty-five outlaws were assembled immediately adjoining the spot where Charles Lindsay was so severely and dangerously wounded.

The appearance of those men was singular and striking.

Their garbs, we need scarcely inform our readers, were different from those of the present day.

Many--nay, most, if not all of them, were bitter enemies to the law, which rendered it penal for them to wear their glibs, and in consequence most of those present had them in full perfection around their heads, over which was worn the _barrad_ or Irish cap, which, however, was then beginning to fall into desuetude.

There was scarcely a man of them on whose countenance was not stamped the expression of care, inward suffering, and, as it would seem, the recollection of some grief or sorrow which had befallen themselves or their families.