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Ulster’s Stand For Union

CHAPTER XVIII
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The _Fanny_ had departed to an appointed rendezvous on the Baltic coast of Denmark.
It was now the turn of the _Clydevalley_ to yield up her obscure identity, and to assume an historic name appropriate to the adventure she was bringing to a triumphant climax--a name of good omen in Ulster ears.

Strips of canvas, 6 feet long, were cut and painted with white letters on a black ground, and affixed to bows and stern, so that the men waiting at Copeland might hail the arrival of the _Mountjoy II_.
Off Copeland Island a small vessel was waiting, which Agnew recognised as a tender belonging to Messrs.

Workman & Clark.

The men on board, as soon as they could make out the name of the approaching vessel, understood at once, and raised a ringing cheer.

Two of them were seen gesticulating and hailing the _Mountjoy_.


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