I am heartily glad he is caught, for the poor fellow he killed was one of the most popular men in the regiment--with the soldiers as well as with us--and if they could have laid hands on this fellow I believe they would have hung him up without a trial.

I shall have real pleasure in giving evidence against the scoundrel for I was present at the time he shot poor Forrest.

I wasn't five yards away, but it was all over and the villain was off before I had time to lift a hand." After dinner was over Ralph gave the full history of the capture in the cavern, of which Captain O'Connor had sent but an outline.
"It was a sharp fight indeed," the major said when he had finished; "for, for a time you were greatly outnumbered, and in the dark discipline is not of much avail.

I think on the whole you got very well out of it, and O'Connor and Desmond were lucky in having got off with a broken limb each." Ralph was detained some days in Cork, as he had to be present at the courthouse when the prisoners were brought up before the magistrates.
After giving his evidence as to the capture, his attendance was no further required.

All with the exception of the Red Captain were committed at once upon the charges of working an illicit still, and of offering a forcible resistance with arms to the authority of the king's officers.