I'll be sure to keep my word, as you will see before long, so have no welcome for the Curtins, and, above all, let no one work for them in any way.

As you respect the Captain, and as you value your own life, abide by this notice.'-- Signed, 'A MOONLIGHTER.' "The above notice was written on tea paper in large legible style, and evidently by an intelligent person.

Groups were perusing it during the day.

A force of police marched through the village and back, but did not observe this document, as it is still posted on the door of the house." The "bloodthirsty perjurers" here mentioned were the daughters who had dared to demand and to promote the punishment of the assassins of their father! For this crime these daughters were to be excommunicated by the people of Firies, and denied the consolations of religion in their deep sorrow, even in defiance of the order of the Catholic bishop.
As the advent of Mr.Gladstone to power in alliance with Mr.Parnell was then imminent, Mr.Sheehan, M.P., wrote a letter to the parish priest of Firies, the Rev.Mr.O'Connor, begging him in substance to put the brakes--for a time--upon the wheels of the local rack, lest the outcries of the young women subjected to this moral torture should interfere with the success of the new alliance.

This, in plain English, is the only possible meaning of the letter which I here reprint from a leaflet issued by an Irish society:-- "The Rev.Father O'Connor, P.P., has received the following letter from Mr.Sheehau, M.P., in reference to this matter, under date "'House of Commons, _January 26th._ "'REV.