I'm obleeged to ye all the same .-- There, that'll do, owld lady.
I'll make a man of the bhoy, and send him back safe and sound, if some of the raw recruits of the brutal Saxons don't shoot him." "Good-bye, then.

God bless you and protect you, Val!" said Aunt Jenny, with a sob, as she loosened her grip of my neck, and I straightened myself up, feeling my heart swell and the blood bound in my veins, for while my father kept the captain in converse, she, with quivering lips, had breathed words of hope into my ear.
"Listen, Val," she said.

"Your father bids me say that you are to watch for your chance, and then make a dash for your liberty.

Gallop to Echo Nek, and you will find Joeboy waiting there with a rifle and cartridges.
But you must not come back here.

Joeboy will bring a letter." My heart was bounding with hope, and I felt ready for anything just then, as the captain gave the orders "Mount!" and then "Forward!" But the next minute my spirits sank into the darkness of misery.