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"Brian O'Harrall, to be shure," was the answer; "he's broken out of the Ring Tower, nobody knows how except he got the help of the devil and his imps." "Thank Heaven I did not meet him! it would have well-nigh driven me out of my wits," said the widow, trembling at the thoughts of the supposed danger she had escaped.
As soon as the boats reached the beach, the whole of the party leaped on shore, with the exception of a few hands left to guard the boats. "This way," cried Owen, dashing forward in the direction of the building which had so long been his prison. His fear was that O'Harrall might have reached the shore, and would carry off Norah.
The ringleader, however, Brian O'Harrall, was on shore, and though strict search was made for him he was nowhere to be discovered. He had friends in the neighbourhood, and it was only sufficient for them to know that the officers of justice were after him to induce them to assist in his escape.
Though bruised from his fall, he was not otherwise hurt, nor were either Dan, Pompey, or Tim wounded. "The safest place for you and these three men is your own cabin," said O'Harrall. "Go in there with them, and I will place a sentry at the door. I cannot trust my own people, and still less the fellows who turned traitors to you."
Gerald and Norman Foley did their utmost to comfort Owen Massey, who was almost in despair, as he thought of the fearful danger to which Norah and her father would be subjected in the power of O'Harrall. To what extremities might he not proceed?
Mammy, on hearing this, told her captives that they must not again venture forth, and they, of course, saw the prudence of obeying her. O'Harrall, who had returned in the ship, paid them but one visit, when he evidently wished to find a cause for quarrelling with Owen. Owen wisely kept his temper, though Dan looked as if he would like to try the strength of his shillelagh on the pirate's head.
Each man fancies that he may have a chance of escaping by turning king's evidence or getting out of prison. I doubt whether even O'Harrall himself would have the nerve to set fire to the magazine, though his capture were certain." The darkness was now settling down on the water, and at length shrouded the stranger from view.
"Judging from what I heard, and the direction in which their voices died away, I am confident of it," said Owen. "Then I will follow your advice," answered O'Harrall. "You have increased the debt of gratitude I owe you. I have no means of showing that I am grateful; but do me one favour more accept this ring; it belonged to your family. It has a curious device on it, which is its chief value.
He could make out through the gloom several persons swimming away from the ship, but whether or not one of them was O'Harrall, it was impossible to say. Not a pirate now remained alive on the deck of the Ouzel Galley. A dozen or more had been cut down, and so effectually had the British seamen wielded their cutlasses that every one of them had been killed outright.
Larry had taken charge of the man whom Gerald supposed to be O'Harrall. The ruffian at first waited along quietly enough, but by the way he turned his head he was evidently on the watch for an opportunity of escaping.
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