f yeomen and their commander.
I beg that you will consider his safety, and not take him with you on
the way on which you are going."

"Neal," said Micah Ward, "is no more than a boy. He knows nothing about
politics. What has my action to do with Neal?"

"His name," said Lord Dunseveric, "stood next to yours on the list of
suspected persons which was put into my hands to-night."

"So be it," said Micah, solemnly! "if my son is to suffer, if he is to
die, he can die no better than fighting for liberty against oppression."

"And I'm thinking," said Donald, "that you are going a bit too fast with
your talk about dying. I've fought just such a fight as my brother is
thinking of. I'm through with it now, and I'm not dead. By God, we saw
to it that it was the other men who died. We won, sir. Mark my words, we
won. It was the people that carried the day in America. They carried
the day in France. What's to hinder us from carrying the day in Ireland,
too?"

Lord Dunseveric looked at Donald during this speech and kept his eyes
fixed upon him for some minutes afterwards. He was considering whether
it was worth while replying to this boastful American Irishman. At last
he turned again to Micah Ward.

"I have still one more appeal to make to you, Mr. Ward. You care
for Ireland. Is it not so? I believe you do. Believe, me, I care for
Ireland, too."

"Yes," said Micah, "you care for Ireland, but what do you mean by
Ireland? You mean a bloodthirsty, supercilious, unprincipled ascendancy,
for whom the public exists only as a prey to be destroyed, who keep
themselves close and mark men's steps that they may lay in wait for
them; who forge chains for their country, who distrust and belie the
people, who scoff at the complaints of the poor and needy, and who
impudently call themselves Ireland. You have made the sick and the lame
to go out of their way. You have eaten the good pastures and trodden
down the residue with your feet. You care for Ireland, and you mean by
Ireland the powers and privileges of a class. I care for Ireland, but
I mean Ireland, not for certain noblemen and gentlemen, but Ireland for
the Irish people, for the poor as well as the rich, for the Protestant,
Dissenter, and Roman Catholic alike."

"I have never denied, nor do I wish to deny, the need of reform," said
Lord Dunseveric, "but I see before all the necessity of loyalty to the
constitution."

"Ay, to the constitution which gives the whole power of the