He soon saw that just where Captain O'Connor had fallen there was an entrance into another cave.

He reloaded his pistols before he entered this, but found it deserted.
It contained two large stills, with mash tubs and every appliance, two or three hundred kegs of whisky, and some thirty sacks of barley.

This at once accounted for the cave being known, and for the number of men found in it; for in addition to the seven that had fallen six prisoners had been taken.

The walls of the cave were deeply smoke-stained, showing that it had been used as a distillery for a great number of years.
"That is satisfactory," Captain O'Connor said when Ralph reported to him the discovery he had made.

"That place where I came down is of course the chimney.