'Twere better to find the maids dead.

It took him not many hours to rob this house of all its light." "'Tis not too late so long as a breath is in this body," said I.

"Come, take us to him, as you are a loyal clansman." "I know no more than I have told you," answered he.

"He is gone to Tyrone's country, and the maids have been carried thither before him.

I will guide you so far." Without more words he came, springing at our sides over the heather and along the mountain paths at a pace that put our nags to shame.