He has spoken in support of Mr.Blunt's candidacy, and is hard at work now to promote it.

But he is not sanguine as to the result, as on all questions, save Home Rule for Ireland, Mr.Blunt's views and ideas, he thinks, antagonise the record of Mr.Evelyn and the local feeling at Deptford.

I was almost astonished to learn from Mr.Davitt that Mr.
Blunt, by the way, had told him at Ballybrack, long before he was locked up, how Mr.Balfour meant to lock up and kill four men, the "pivots" of the Irish movement, to wit, Mr.O'Brien, Mr.Harrington, Mr.Dillon, and Mr.Davitt himself.

But I was not at all astonished to learn that Mr.
Blunt told him all this most seriously, and evidently believed it.
"How did you take it ?" I asked.
"Oh, I only laughed," said Mr.Davitt, "and told him it would take more than Mr.Balfour to kill me, at any rate by putting me in prison.

As for being locked up, I prefer Cuninghame Graham's way of taking it, that he meant 'to beat the record on oakum!'" If all the Irish "leaders" were made of the same stuff with Mr.Davitt, the day of a great Democratic revolution, not in Ireland only, but in Great Britain, might be a good deal nearer than anything in the signs of the times now shows it to be.