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But the episode which best illustrates at once the address and the audacity of the bardic order is the story of Murray O'Daly of Lissadil, and Donnell More O'Donnell, Lord of Tyrconnell.
"Where is it?" asked Bert, of Tom Donnell, whom he joined, almost as soon as he came out of the house. "I don't know. I heard the four bells. Old Stickler is ringing yet. He didn't lose any time." "No, he didn't. Say, Vincent, do you know where it is?" "I heard Simon Pierson say, as I ran past his house, a few minutes ago, that he thought it was the Stockton mansion.
Melaghlin O'Donnell succeeded Donnell More from '41 to '47, Godfrey from '48 to '57, and Donnell Oge from 1257 to 1281, when he was slain in battle.
We are, however, certain as to the date of the bell, for an inscription is upon it, stating it was made to the order of Donnell O’Lochlain, one of the old Irish kings, who came to the throne in 1083, and died in 1121. The first brooch discovered in Ireland is in the possession of Mr. Waterhouse, the goldsmith, of Dublin. It was found accidentally by a peasant near Drogheda.
What's that?" inquired Cole. The boys heard a distant shouting. "The bucket brigade is turning out," spoke Tom Donnell. "No. It's some one yelling about the fire!" There came a shift in the wind, and to the ears of the boys was borne this cry: "The lumber yard's on fire! Hurry!" "The lumber yard!" exclaimed Captain Bert. "If that gets going we can't do anything to stop it!"
The Valhalla was on the return leg of a journey to Alpha Centauri. But one man aboard the starship had not waited for the morning alarm. For Alan Donnell the day had begun several hours before.
Nine years had passed, almost to the week, since a brash youngster named Alan Donnell had crossed the bridge from the Spacer's Enclave and hesitantly entered the bewildering complexity of York City. Nine years. He was twenty-six now, no boy any more. He was the same age Steve had been, when he had been dragged unconscious to the Valhalla and taken aboard.
"Eight minutes to blastoff," came the warning. Never had eight minutes passed so slowly. Alan snapped on his viewscreen and looked down at the field; the ground crew men were busily clearing the area as blastoff time approached. "One minute to blastoff, Pilot Donnell." Then the count-down began, second by second.
Would he get a sight of the prisoner held there? He tried to pierce the darkness. Surely that was a movement, surely that was someone hurrying to the window. Bert looked down. He caught one glimpse of Muchmore, in the light from a lantern Tom Donnell was carrying, rushing at the ladder, as if to upset it, and precipitate the boy on it to the ground, thirty feet below.
You don't know what I'd give to see the suns come up over Albireo V, or to watch the thousand moons of Capella XVI. But I can't do it." He shook his head gravely. "Well, I better not dream. I like Earth and I like the sort of life I lead. And I'm glad I ran into you, too we'll make a good team, you and me, Donnell."
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