As sure as I lie here, you shall find him, and we shall all thank Heaven together." Her face brightened.
"You have said as much before," said she, "and it has come to pass.
Yes, I will hope still." But her voice fell sadly with the words, and her face turned to the window, seaward.
Then she bade me tell her what had passed since we parted in London, and how Ludar and I came on the _Gerona_.

And, hearing of all the chances that had befallen us, I think she took a little hope that all this buffetting and peril was not assuredly to end in loss.
But she said nothing.

Only she kept her hand in Jeannette's; and when I told her of the horrible scene on the bog by Killybegs, she shuddered, and muttered what, I fear, was a prayer for the soul of a dead man.
"But how come you in Dunluce ?" I asked again, presently.
'Twas Jeannette who answered me.
"'Tis easily told, dear Humphrey.

After Sir Turlogh departed for Dublin, leaving us in charge of this,"-- here she shivered--"this Captain Merriman, my mistress and I kept our chambers, and durst not so much as venture beyond the door.

Our good protectors--Heaven reward them!--had been banished the place; and but for a few of the O'Neill's men, who stood in the way, we had not been safe where we were for a day.
"At last, one day, there came suddenly a messenger, purporting to be from the O'Neill, bidding the Captain send his daughter to him under an escort to Dublin.