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The officer said that the town was entirely surrounded and that there was a gun on top of one of the hills which would shell the place into little bits in an hour if it started firing. O'Farrelly said he didn't believe all that and accused the officer of putting up a bluff. The officer stuck to it that what he said was true. That brought the negotiations to a dead-lock."
"It's the only country in Europe," said Power, "which knows how to conduct war in a civilized way. Now if a situation of that sort turned up out here there'd be bloodshed." "I suppose O'Farrelly was hanged afterwards?" said Waterhouse. "No, he wasn't." "Shot, then? Though I should think hanging is the proper death for a rebel." "Nor shot," said Power. "He is alive still and quite well.
In Ballymahon we lived in houses with beds and chairs and looked after ourselves properly. Then one morning it must have been Friday news came in that a lot of soldiers were marching on the town. Some country girls saw them and came running in to tell us. I must say for the Sinn Fein commander that he kept his head. His name was O'Farrelly and he called himself a Colonel.
"Nobody stole them," said O'Farrelly; "not what you'd call stealing, anyway; but it's our belief that the police has them." "You're wrong there," said Hinde. "The police never touched your instruments, and wouldn't." "They might not if they knew they were ours.
But they both boggled at it. The officer said he'd no power to enter into negotiation of any kind with rebels, and that all he could do was take yes or no to his proposal of unconditional surrender. O'Farrelly seemed to think that he'd be shot, no matter what safe conducts he had.
"Jimmy," said O'Farrelly, "we're in trouble about the demonstration that's to be held next Tuesday." "It'd be better for you," said Jimmy, "if that demonstration was never held. For let me tell you this: the Lodge boys has their minds made up to have no Papist rebels demonstrating here."
"You didn't mention it, but it doesn't matter." "It does matter. And you'll see later on it's most important Well, O'Farrelly was frightfully polite to the officer, and asked him what he wanted. The officer said that he had come to demand the unconditional surrender of the whole of the rebel army. O'Farrelly, still quite politely, said he'd rather die than surrender, and everybody present cheered.
Hinde was surprised, very agreeably surprised, at receiving a visit one evening from the president of the Republican Club. In Ireland, leading politicians, whatever school they belong to, are seldom on friendly terms with the police. He greeted O'Farrelly warmly. "What I was wishing to speak to you about was this " O'Farrelly began. "Fill your pipe before you begin talking," said Mr. Hinde.
"As a matter of fact," said Power, "hardly any of them had any arms, except hockey sticks, and the Colonel thought they'd piled them up somewhere. He seems to have been a decent sort of fellow. He made O'Farrelly and a few more prisoners, and told the rest of them to be off home." "Ireland," said Waterhouse, "must be a dd queer country."
"Here's some tobacco." He offered his pouch as he spoke. "I wish I could offer you a drink; but there's no whisky to be got nowadays." "I know that," said O'Farrelly in a friendly tone, "and what's more, I know you'd offer it to me if you had it." He filled his pipe and lit it. Then he began again: "What I was wishing to speak to you about is the band instruments."
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