arms take you at your word. But hark !—they are beating again to ! I have no time. First, Dermot O'Brien, Earl of Thomond, give me your parole of honor-rescue or no rescue; you cannot refuse me. Then tell me where I shall find Colonel Florence Desmond-and then where the countess-for I know that you are wedded to the fair lady for whom you fought so gallantly, and cost me so many of my best men. Do this, and I pledge myself that you shall see them both this night in safety." "Pledge not yourself, sir, for you cannot fulfil. You will find Colonel Desmond even where you will find my motherbefore the high altar of the first church you come to, an if you win the town "There is no if.—We shall win it!" "I may not gainsay you, Master Henry Cromwell. I do not mean to offend; but I know not by what title to address you. But you have cost me very dear!—at our first meeting, a dear mother-at our second, a dear brother!" "At least, I have returned you life for life, as earnest of what I will do; and if you will permit, will restore to you this night a wife for whom alone I have captured you. Trust in me, lord earl-trust in me. You will know why to-morrow." "I will trust in you, though I know not wherefore. I give you my parole of honor-rescue or no rescue. You will find her in the governor's lodging, in Castle-street, near to the Mill mount; and as you deal with her, so may God do unto you, and much more also!" "Amen!" replied Henry Cromwell. "Amen-so be it! Now lead him to my quarters, Nicholson. Treat him with every honor, but let him not go forth. Mount a guard over him with loaded muskets. Let none enter in to him until I return. 1 make you answerable for him with your life. Fare-you-well, Earl of Thomond. I go to lead the assault, and if I live, I will not fail you!" He did not fail him. Ere ten o'clock of that horrid night in which Tredagh was taken-in which two thousand men were slaughtered in cold blood, or roasted wilfully to death in God's desecrated temples-in which the kennels of the city streamed with human gore-ere ten o'clock of that horrid night, O'Brien clasped to his heart the living wife, and wept with her, unhindered, over the rescued corpse of the dead brother. Years passed away. The young earl and his lovely bride departed on the very morrow, self-exiled to the hospitable realm of France; and there dwelt, happy and in honor, until the restoration of the second Charles to his hereditary crown restored the Earl of Thomond also to his hereditary lands and honors. Years passed away, and the gallant son of the great usurper, early called away, went down to the grave before his mighty sire—and, dying, sealed the doom of his father's blood-bought dynasty. Had Henry Cromwell lived to succeed Oliver, a Cromwell might have now sat on the throne of England. 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