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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt:...He i.idn'i seem to be much reheved by my consolatoiy efforts, however, for he again reiterated that he "wished he was rid of the letter--and the responsibility its possession entailed on him!" I could not thoroughly sympathize with his feelings then--when the events of an hour might commit us all to a conflict from which there was no retreating; but i.evertheless, I respected his high moral courage und that devotion to duty which impelled him to encounter, unflinchingly, prospective dangers clearly visible to him, though unseen or unheeded by me. Mr. Reilly asked me to show them the way to Doheuy's house, and I accompanied them there, and, having mtroduced Mr. Reilly to Mrs. Doheriy, I left to seek my companions--promising to return in an hour for instructions relative to our future movements. While on my way to Ryan's Hotel. I met my two companions, and. after breakfasting, I returned with them to the vicinity of Doheuy's house; I posted them as sentinels on the ' Rock" while I entered the dwelling to consult Devin Reilly--and get my "pike" from its noble-hearted caretaker. Mr. Reilly told me that if, in a few hours, he did not meet O'BrieD in Cashel, he would set out for Carrick in hopes of meeting him and Meagher in that town, or in its vicinity. He instructed me to proceed directly to Cappoqulu--(not entering the town till after nightfall,)--to communicate with a trusty Confederate there--(Hugh W. Colleuiler--with whom he knew I had kept up a correspondence during my sojourn in Dublin;)--instruct him to prepare our townsmen for a prompt rising--as soon as they got orders to that effect through either myself or any of my two comrades--and, having done so--proceed by the shortest route to Carrick--where we were to meet him on the...