They will most likely proceed against him on the charge of shooting his officer and deserting; for they will have no difficulty in proving that, as the regiment he belonged to is in Dublin." Denis started at once to rejoin his wife, highly pleased to have got away so quickly.

Two days later Captain Morrison and Mr.Stapleton arrived from headquarters.
"I congratulate you, Conway," the latter said heartily.

"We all pitied your being ordered away to this dreary place; and now you have been getting no end of honor and credit.

O'Connor's report speaks in the strongest terms of you, and says it was entirely owing to your promptness and courage that the band was captured, and his life and that of Desmond saved.

The Cork papers are full of the affair; and the capture of that notorious scoundrel, the Red Captain, created quite an excitement, I can tell you.