I didn't think I could have missed you, if you'd kept on in the middle, and I have been puzzled altogether as to what could have become of you, if ye were really alive.
"I have got some bread in my bundle here, and a bottle of spirits, and you had better have a bite and a sup before we go on, for it's pretty nigh as white as a ghost ye are." The meal seemed to put new life and strength into Walter, and, after its conclusion, he was ready to step out again with fresh energy.

They thought it better at once to leave the road, and tramp across the country.

By so doing they avoided all parties of the English troops, and reached the Irish army without adventure.

Walter at once reported himself to General Sarsfield, and related all that had taken place in Dublin.
"You have done excellently, Mr.Davenant, and your escape from capture was an extraordinary one.

Unfortunately, the betrayal of what was doing, and the arrest of our friends, is likely to upset all the plans you had arranged." "I hope not, sir," Walter said.