I think it will be best to place half the company along the top of the cliffs, posting two or three men at every point where it looks possible that they may ascend, then with the other half we will go down on this track she speaks of and search the whole place thoroughly.

If they are there we must find them sooner or later; and find them we will, if the search takes us a week." "Who is this Red Captain ?" "I believe his real name is Dan Egan.

He was mixed up in some brutal outrage on an inoffensive farmer, had to leave the county, went to Dublin, and enlisted.

He went out to Spain with his regiment, was flogged twice for thieving, then he shot an officer who came upon him when he was ill-treating a Portuguese peasant; he got away at the time, and it was months before he was heard of again.

It was thought that he had deserted to the French, but I suppose he got down to a port somewhere in disguise and shipped on board a vessel for England.
The next thing heard of him was that he was back again at his native place.