These affairs had left very little margin of time to spare.

The _Clydevalley_ could not be at Llandudno before the morning of the 17th, and Agnew would be looking for her at the Tuskar the same evening.

As it actually turned out she only arrived at the Welsh watering-place late that night, and, after picking up Crawford, who had spent an anxious day on the beach, arrived off the Wexford coast at daybreak on Saturday, the 18th.

Not a sign of the _Fanny_ was to be seen all that day, or the following night; and when the skipper of the _Clydevalley_, who had been on the _Balmerino_ and was privy to the arrangements with Agnew, gave Crawford reason to think there might have been a misunderstanding as to the rendezvous, Yarmouth having been also mentioned in that connection, Crawford was in a condition almost of desperation.
It was, indeed, a situation to test the nerves, to say nothing of the temper, of even the most resolute.

It was Sunday, and Crawford had undertaken to be at Copeland Island, at the mouth of Belfast Lough, on Friday evening for final landing instructions.