Of course at present we shall treat you as a prisoner, as you were captured with the others; but I think we shall manage to let you slip away.

Your wife is to remain at Dunmanway till she hears the news of this affair and that you are safe, and she bade me tell you that you would find her at home, so no one will dream that either she or you had any hand in this affair.

Now, point me out which are the four men that belong to this gang that brought you down here." "The man who has just died was one of them," Denis replied.

"None of the other three are here, so I expect they fell in the cabin.

They were in the front of the fight.