One more effort we decided on, and the experiment was to be tried the next night.

We heard Mr.Meagher also was arrested, and we resolved, in order to satisfy ourselves of the correctness of this and other reports, to put ourselves in direct communication with some person in the town of Clonmel.

We accordingly proceeded to the neighbourhood of that town, within a mile of which, at the Waterford side, we established ourselves, and remained two days.

Each day we sent in a messenger who brought us correct intelligence of what occurred; and satisfied us not alone that Mr.O'Brien was then in gaol, but that he was allowed to be torn from the midst of a people for whom he had perilled his life, without a hand being raised in his defence.

We then returned to the scene of our former meetings, and met, for the last time, beside a little brook near the Waterford slate-quarries.