Two or three days later, Captain Davenant returned to Limerick with his troop.

He had stopped at the house on his way, and learned there of the move which had been made.
"Well, Walter, so you nearly had to defend Mrs.Conyers against odds, again," he said, as Walter joined him in the marketplace, where the troop was dismounting.

"I have come here for a day, only, for we are on our way south.

It is thought likely that the enemy's next move may be against Cork, so some of us are detached in that direction.
"To my mind," he went on, after he had seen the troop quartered, in some houses which formerly belonged to the Protestants, but were now used as barracks--"in my opinion, we are wasting precious time.

We ought not to allow the enemy to go into winter quarters.