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The Bertragh hold was built on a cliff that rose from the plain on the one hand, and sloped down to the water on the other; had the Dark Master not fallen into Turlough's trap, he might have turned out the pikemen to shift for themselves and have held the castle with his own men for as long as he wished.
"He will send two or threescore men upon us, and it is my purpose to take as many of these prisoner as may be." Cathbarr stared, and Turlough's gray eyes squinted up at Brian. "How is this, master?" he asked inquiringly. "It is too good a trap to waste on prisoners " "My plan is my plan," said Brian briefly.
By Turlough's advice, however, they brought about the Dark Master's fall through certain prisoners made in the two sallies. These captives were led through the depleted central camp, though they knew nothing of that picked place farther back.
However, what remained of Vere's five hundred pikemen were in the castle, joined to the Dark Master's men; and Turlough's advice was that since there must be some seven hundred mouths to feed, the safest plan was to bide close and force the fight to come to them, rather than to take it to O'Donnell. "There is reason against that, Turlough Wolf," said Brian quickly.
Well might Colonel Winter, who knows the speaker above-mentioned, say to me, "He has read a good deal, but his reading seems to have done him no good." It is time I went back to Turlough's Tower and my phoenix priest who was riled to hear his Bishop speak of the Dublin explosion as a "Castle job."
Brian gazed at her, reading her heart, and fighting vainly against the impulse that rose within him. Twice he tried to speak and could not, while she watched the conflict in his face and wondered. He wished vainly that he had Turlough's cunning brain to aid him now. "Lady," he said at last, biting his lips, "I will do this.
And when Turlough had ridden somberly away, Brian felt a strange sense of desertion, of loss, that was no whit inspired by Turlough's gloomy last words. He shook it off, however, at gripping hands again with Cathbarr.
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