has a name which my memory connects with treasonable doings and sayings.
He must remain for a few hours at least in the jail."

"This is not at all pleasant," said Captain Sydenham pugnaciously. "I
could have let these friends of my friends go without troubling you
about them. I wished to make it easier for them to travel to Dublin by
bringing them before you, and here is my reward."

"I wish you had, Captain," said the magistrate. "But now you've done it,
neither is free to do more than follow the routine. We have enough real
work without annoying honest travelers. However, it's only a matter of a
few hours."

"Then you had better telegraph to Lord Constantine," said Sydenham to
Grahame.

Folsom started at the name and looked at the party with a puzzled frown.
Grahame wrote on a sheet of paper the legend: "A telegram from you to
the authorities here will get Honora and her party out of much trouble."

"Is it as warm as that?" said the Captain with a smile, as he read the
lines and handed the paper to Folsom with a broad grin.

"I'm in for it now," groaned Folsom to himself as he read. "Wish I'd let
the Captain alone and tended to strict business."

While the wires were humming between Dublin and Cruarig, Captain
Sydenham spent his spare time in atoning for his blunders against the
comfort of the party. Ledwith having been put in jail most honorably,
the Captain led the others to the inn and located them sumptuously. He
arranged for lunch, at which he was to join them, and then left them to
their ease while he transacted his own affairs.

"One of the men you read about," said Grahame, as the three looked at
one another dolorously. "Sorry I didn't confide in him from the start.
Now it's a dead certainty that your father stays in jail, Honora, and I
may be with him."

"I really can't see any reason for such despair," said Arthur.

"Of course not," replied Grahame. "But even Lord Constantine could not
save Owen Ledwith from prison in times like these, if the authorities
learn his identity."

"What is to be done?" inquired Honora.

"You will stay with your father of course?" Honora nodded.

"I'm going to make a run for it at the first opportunity," said Grahame.
"I can be of no use here, and we must get back the ship safe and sound.
Arthur, if they hold Ledwith you will have the honor of working for his
freedom. Owen is an American citizen. He ought to have all the rights
and privileges of a British subject