Their cattle were killed and their ricks set on fire; and so in a short time he had the whole neighborhood under his thumb.

Whenever a party went in pursuit of him he was sure to obtain early information.

Not from love, but from fear; for it was a well understood thing that any one seeing a body of police and failing to send instant word would suffer for it.
"Just as we left I heard that a company of foot and a troop of cavalry were to be sent from Galway to search every hut and hiding-place in the district, and I suppose that it was this that drove him down here.
He has red hair and beard; and it is this partly, and partly no doubt the fellow's murderous character, that has gained him the name of the Red Captain.

He is a prize worth taking, and if we can lay hands on him and his band together we shall have done better work than if we had unearthed a hundred illicit stills.

At any rate we will lose no time.