Now, if you will go down to the water with me, I will be off at once.

I sha'n't be away half an hour; and I can slip up into the loft where Pat sleeps, and not a sowl be the wiser, if there was a regiment of William's troops about the house." "All right, Larry! I shall wait here for you till you get back." Larry raised the light craft and put it on his head.

He had made a couple of light paddles, by nailing two pieces of wood on to mop sticks.
Walter accompanied him to the water's edge, and told the sentry there that Larry was crossing the river on business, and would return in half an hour's time, and that he was not to challenge loudly when he saw him returning.
The night was dark, and Walter soon lost sight of the little boat.

Then he waited anxiously.

He had, however, but little fear that the enemy would have posted sentries so far down the river, especially as he would only just have pitched his camp opposite Limerick.
It was three-quarters of an hour before he heard a faint splash in the water.