Accordingly he made a dash into Tyrconnel, and carried off both the lady and her husband to his stronghold, Shane's Castle, on the banks of Lough Neagh.

Her Scotch guard, though fifteen hundred strong, had offered no resistance.
O'Donel was shut up in a prison, and his wife became the willing paramour of the captor.

'The affront to McConnell was forgiven or atoned for by private arrangement, and the sister of the Earl of Argyle--an educated woman for her time, not unlearned in Latin, speaking French and Italian, counted sober, wise, and no less subtle--had betrayed herself and her husband.

The O'Neills, by this last manoeuvre, became supreme in Ulster.

Deprived of their head, the O'Donels sank into helplessness.