And it appears that he has taken another holding in Carlow.

From his place we drove to Ballyfad, where a large house, at the end of a good avenue of trees, once the mansion of a squire, but now much dilapidated, is occupied as headquarters by the police.

Here we found Mr.George Freeman, the bailiff of the Coolgreany property, a strong, sturdy man, much disgusted at finding it necessary to go about protected by two policemen.

That this was necessary, however, he admitted, pointing out to us the place where one Kinsella was killed not very long ago.

The son of this man Kinsella was formerly one of Mr.Brooke's gamekeepers, and is now, Mr.Freeman thinks, in concert with another man named Ryan, the chief stay of the League in keeping up its dominion over the evicted tenants.
Many of these tenants, he believes, would gladly pay their rents now, and come back if they dared.
"Every man, sir," he said, "that has anything to lose, would be glad to come back next Monday if he thought his life would be safe.