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ealls upon Evelyn, and O’ Haggerty upon 
McDonnel to fulfil their respective engage- 
ments, and sacrifice their private wishes to 
public duties. Each is surprised by the 
discovery of the other’s engagement ; sus- 
picion springs up in the breast of each; 
their passions kindle; high words follow, 
and brides and bridegrooms separate. 
Impelled by Walker, Evelyn joins the 
Ulster Union and accepts a commission in 
William’s name; but before joining the 
troops, he conducts his distressed sister to 
her friends at Derry, and proceeds himself 
to look after his family estate on the Lough 
Neagh. On advancing up the avenue, he 
perceives unusual stirrings in the house, 
and while hastening forward to ascertain 
the cause, he strikes against the legs of his 
own servant dangling fromatree. Alarmed 
and retiring, his retreat is instantly cut off on 
all sides by armed men, who force him to go 
forward to the house, which he now dis- 
covers to be in the full possession of a party 
of Rapparees. He receives a very hearty 
welcome from them to his own home, and 
is hospitably entertained by them with a 
supper provided from his own stores, and 
by his own cook. The feast is suddenly 
interrupted by the intelligence of an enemy 
at hand. Up starts the party ; measures 
are instantly taken for defence, and the 
commander places a guard over Evelyn 
with orders to shoot him on the spot, 
should the invaders prevail. These inva- 
ders prove to be Evelyn’s friends headed 
by Walker. The Rapparees were defeated, 
and Evelyn was rescued from his fate, by 
the artifice of a young lass, who had taken a 
fancy to him, and threw some water on the 
lock of the Guard’s pistol, which was thus 
snapped at him in vain. 
Evelyn now joined the forces under 
Lord Mount Alexander, and was wounded 
in the first battle fought at Dromore on the 
retreat from Newry, and left bleeding on 
the field. On recovering his senses, he 
seizes a stray horse, and sets out for 
the north. Beyond Carrickfergus, the 
Redshanks, Lord Antrim’s dragoons, a 
troop of which McDonnel commanded, 
were scouring the country, and he quickly 
found himself pursued. His horse failing, 
he betook himself to his legs, and after 
flying across we know not how many hills 
and dales, and endeavouring to descend a 
steep declivity, he sunk at last exhausted 
in a hole of the rock, till his pursuers came 
up with him, at the first of whom he dis- 
charged a pistol. It was McDonnel him- 
self. No harm was done; they recognize 
each other, and a reconciliation follows. 
He refuses to take Evelyn prisoner, in 
spite of the sulky remonstrances of his 
men; but dismissing them to the next 
town, himself, to the neglect apparently of 
his military duties, engages to conduct his 
friend to a place of safety. This, however, 
is not so easily accomplished. Prodigious 
‘difficulties are encountered, a most painful 
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and laborious succession of climbings and 
slippings and escapes. By the way, there 
is a vast deal too much of difficulties of 
this kind; the realities are intolerable 
enough, but the descriptions are still more 
so. By-and-bye, however, Eva meets 
them, and Evelynand his bride “explain.” 
All are now proceeding very harmoniously 
together, when suddenly a party of Ulster 
dragoons come upon them, and McDonnell 
is instantly taken prisoner, but placed under 
the charge of his friend. Eva now goes 
to her friends, and Evelyn, with McDonnel 
on parole, proceeds to Derry to visit his sis- 
ter, and McDonnel and Miss Evelyn also 
of course come again to a perfect under- 
standing. 
The memorable siege had already com- 
menced, and Evelyn takes an active part 
in the defence under Walker, whose cha- 
racter is here ably developed ; a singular 
union of energy, craft, and fanaticism. 
The whole progress of the siege, to the 
final relief by the arrival of Kirke, is faith- 
fully and vigorously detailed, and presents 
many a striking picture of the miseries sus- 
tained by that devoted city from the can- 
nonading without, and the famine within ; 
with the unresisting submission of the citi- 
zens and Walker and his few energetic 
apprentice-boys. In the course of the siege 
an attempt is again made to celebrate the 
marriage between McDonnel and Evelyn’s 
sister, which is again interrupted by the 
mysterious agency of a wild Irishwoman, 
possessed of something like the attributes 
of omniscience and ubiquity; and the 
poor girl at last dies from the combined 
effects of fright, famine and fever. 
On the raising of the siege, the MeDon- 
nels and Evelyn, being again all together, 
and passes and protections obtained, they 
proceed towards old McDomnel’s. But by 
this time, Schomberg had’ landed 20,000 
men, and Kirke had set out to join him to- 
wards the south. Old McDonnel’s unluck- 
ily layin his way; and there was danger, lest 
he should be beforehand with them. They 
speeded, therefore, with all their aap, 
and in the deepest anxiety—all too late. 
Kirke and his troops had just quitted the 
smoking ruins, and the followers of the clan 
were hanging on the trees by dozens. The 
shrieks of poor Eva over the dead body of 
her father, bring Kirke and his fellows back 
again ; Evelyn | presents the protections for 
his companions in vain. * At the moment of 
imminent peril, a party of Rapparees come 
suddenly upon them; a skirmish ensues ; 
Evelyn i is cut down, and on waking to life 
again, finds his head resting on the lap of a 
young woman, whom he recognizes to be 
the same, who had before saved his life, and 
who now informs him that MeDonnel had 
perished, and Eva was carried off by Kirke. 
The recollection of Kirke’s well-known 
character threw him into a storm of hor- 
ror, and he makes desperate efforts to pur- 
suc him, in spite of his weakness and the 
