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Stunned though he was by the sudden and terrible blow, Brian had seized on the only course left him. If he could make shift to hold the castle at all, he would do so; if not, he must make terms and get off to Gorumna that he might take vengeance for this dastardly stroke that had been dealt him.
Upon this the O'Malley rovers were impatient to revictual at Gorumna and be off to the south after plunder, so Nuala decided to leave Bertragh the next morning. That night, after Cathbarr had drunk himself asleep and the O'Malleys had sought their ships, the Bird Daughter unexpectedly became very cordial toward Brian once more, and they sat up late before the fireplace.
Moreover, the Dark Master could know nothing of those men at Gorumna and would have little fear of the Bird Daughter. And it befell exactly as Brian thought. "I agree," cried the Dark Master, stepping out in the dawn-light boldly. "You shall go forth empty as you came, Yellow Brian. What of those two-score men you owe me?"
For in that day Galway was a second Venice, and its commerce made rich plundering for the O'Malley's both of Gorumna and of Erris in the North, though the war had somewhat dimmed the glory of the fourteen great merchant families. Brian wondered often what had become of Cathbarr and his two hundred men, and Murrough could give him little satisfaction.
If O'Donnell settled in the city, he was determined to go in at all risks and seek out his enemy face to face; the O'Malleys were on good terms with the Bodkins, who in old Galway played Capulet to the Montague of the Lynch family, and he would be able to command some help in that quarter. On the fifth day after the castle had been taken, a galley came over from Gorumna Castle bearing news.
The Dark Master gazed quietly at the giant, Vere taking no part in the talk. But Brian, watching also, saw that which brought a mocking smile to O'Donnell's pallid face. Cathbarr had no fear of any man, and lies did not come easily to his lips; when he spoke of the force lying in Gorumna, and of help from Erris, his face gave him away.
"Is that you, Nuala? Where are we?" "Yes, it is I," came her voice softly, and something warm splashed on his cheek. "Oh, Brian! I so feared that that you were dead!" The hand moved away, and he moved uneasily, to feel pain through his body. "Nay, put back your hand!" he said. He tried to smile. "There, that's better. Where are we, Nuala? On your ship?" "No, Brian at Gorumna. But I forgot.
Perhaps he was not the only one who knew this, for as Lame Art rowed out with his cousin, the latter nodded back at the tower. "What think you of this ally, Art Bocagh? Could he be truly the Earl's grandson?" "I know not," grunted the other. "But I do not care whether he be Brian Buidh or Brian O'Neill or Brian the devil he is such a man as I would fain see sitting in Gorumna Castle, Shaun!"
The commission guaranteed her possession of Gorumna and Bertragh and the lands she claimed, and promised that when the royalists were driven from Galway the grant would be confirmed by Parliament. "I am to answer Captain Peyton to-night, Brian," she finished, her eyes dancing. "And Shaun is going to remain and hold Bertragh for me " "What's that?" cried Brian. "Hold Bertragh?
So he was boss and whenever it was a question whether we should take the road to the west or the road to the south, it was Synge who finally decided. Synge was fond of little children and animals. I remember how glad he was to stop and lean on a wall in Gorumna and watch a woman in afield shearing a sheep.
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