If you remain here, you would almost certainly be caught also, for, as the man who has followed us will be aware that we are together, a search will at once be made for you.

So mind, my orders are, that if you see I am in trouble you are at once to set out for Limerick.

If you think that I may manage to get away, you are also to leave at once, but are to wait for me, for twelve hours, at the village three miles out.

If I do not come by the end of that time, it will be that I have been taken, and you are to go straight on." It was on the evening when all the arrangements were finally settled, that a loud knocking was heard at the door of the house where eight of the principal persons in the affair were assembled.

One of them looked out of the window, and announced that the street was full of soldiers.
All leaped to their feet, and drew their swords.
"It is of no use to resist, gentlemen," Walter said.