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"Very well, sir; then I will tell you where they are to be found. I
can't take you there, your honor, but I can tell you whereabout it is.
There is a footpath turns oft from the road at the end of the village,
and goes straight down to the top of them big rocks that come out of
the sea. Well, sir, a few hundred yards to the right of that there is
a sort of break in the rocks, and there is a track goes down there.
You won't see it onless you look close for it, and it gets lost a
little way down, becase the rocks are all broken about and heaped on
each other. It's down there they go. There's always a man on watch not
far from the top; and there is generally a gossoon from their friends
here somewhere at the edge of the bog behind, who would run forward
and tell the man on watch if he saw any soldiers coming from here. So
you will have to be mighty careful; but they are down there, sure
enough, somewhere.
"Denis tould me there was no chance of their being taken, for they
have got a little boat hid away down among the rocks by the water, and
if the alarm was given they would make off in that. I can't tell you
any more than that, you honor; but I should think that may be enough
to help you to find them."
"I should think so too, Mrs. Moore. And what do you propose doing
yourself?"
"I shall go off, sir, at once.
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