We shall post ten men, a quarter of a mile apart, on the bank, and I will give orders for them to look out for you.

The word will be 'Wicklow;' so when you come across they will shout to you, 'Who comes there ?' You say, 'Wicklow;' and it will be all right." At the hour he had named, Walter went round for Larry, who was working by the light of a torch stuck in the ground.
"I have just finished it, yer honour; but I was obliged to stop till the boys got quiet; they were so mighty inquisitive as to what I was in such a hurry about, that I had to leave it alone for a while." "Look here, Larry, here is the letter, but that's not the principal reason why I am sending you across.

You will give it to Pat Ryan, as you suggested, to pass on through Bridget to Miss Conyers; but I want you to arrange with him that he shall, tomorrow, get some dry sticks put together on the bank opposite, with some straw, so that he can make a blaze in a minute.

Then do you arrange with him that, if any parties of William's troops come to the house in the absence of Mr.Conyers, and there should seem likely to be trouble, he is to run as hard as he can down to the river.

If it is day, he is to wave a white cloth on a stick.
If it is night, he is to light the fire.