Tell him to arrange with Bridget to run at once to him and tell him, if there is trouble in the house, for, as he is in the stables, he may not know what is going on inside.
"I have been looking at those boats.

They will carry fifteen men each at a pinch; and if the signal is made, we shall not be long in getting across.

Pat would only have about half a mile to run.

We will get the boats down close to the water's edge, and it won't take us many minutes to get across.

Anyhow, in twenty minutes from the time he starts, we might be there." "That will be a moighty good plan, yer honour.