Tell me," he added, "from this height we should surely be able to see Castleroe." "Yes," said I, "I remember seeing this round hill, as we stood parleying with the sentinel." Ludar said no more, but sat at the mouth of the cave, looking westward, till sunset.
Then a new resolve seemed to have taken hold of him.

He led me to the cairn on the mountain top, where was piled a great heap of wood and briar ready for a beacon fire.
"When shall this be lit ?" he asked our guide.
"When Sorley Boy is ready.

'Tis the last signal agreed upon.

When Knocklayd is fired, friend and foe, the country round, will march." "Then," said Ludar, "pile up more fuel, and fetch a torch." The man and I stared at him in amazement.
"Do you hear ?" he thundered.

"Am I McDonnell or are you ?" Then when the man, scared and terrified, went off to obey, Ludar said to me: "I cannot help this, Humphrey.