Crawford, suspecting fresh orders to retreat, paid no attention, and told Agnew to hold on his course; and even when presently he was able to recognise Mr.Cowser and Mr.Dawson Bates on board the tender, and to hear them shouting that they had important instructions for him, he still refused to let them come on board.

"If the orders are not signed by Sir Edward Carson," he shouted back, "you can take them back to where they came from." But the orders they brought had been signed by the leader, a special messenger having been sent to London to obtain his signature, and the change of plan they indicated was, in fact, just what Crawford desired.

The bulk of the arms were to be landed at Larne, the port he had always favoured, and lesser quantities were to be taken to Bangor and Donaghadee.
It was 10.30 that night, the 24th of April 1914, when the _Mountjoy II_ steamed alongside the landing-stage at Larne, where she had been eagerly awaited for a couple of hours.

The voyage of adventure was over.

Fred Crawford, with the able and zealous help of Andrew Agnew, had accomplished the difficult and dangerous task he had undertaken, and a service had been rendered to Ulster not unworthy to rank beside the breaking of the boom across the Foyle by the first and more renowned _Mountjoy_.
FOOTNOTES: [87] _Annual Register_, 1914, p.