I do it because Garret Dawson holds a secret of ours which only the sacrifice of myself can buy back.

I owe so much to the kind love which has never let me miss the love of father and mother.

But I am sure I shall not live long.

You should not have gone away and left me.
"Yours always, "BAWN." When I had written it I did not read it over, lest I should destroy it with the others, but, having found a very strong envelope, I put it within it and sealed it with the impression of my father's ring.
The only way I could hope for it to reach him was by leaving it at his old home, which I knew he loved despite its state of ruin--or perhaps the more because of that--and he was sure to return there some time.

So I addressed it to Captain Cardew, Brosna; and then, because I could trust no one but myself to deliver it I stole out of the house.
I was free for a few hours, for my lover was gone to Dublin.