Chapter IX

How Father O'Rourke kept the Black Pass; of the escape of the Prince and my own mischance that followed; but of how the Day of Reckoning between me and Creach came at last

ILLUSTRATIONS

"I KNELT AND KISSED HIS HAND WITH MY HEART ON MY LIPS" . . . _Frontispiece._

"IN BURST MR. O'ROURKE"

"I GAVE HIM A BOY'S PUNISHMENT"

"'TELL ME, SIR, WHAT DID YOU COME HERE FOR?' HE STORMED"

"I COULD NOT HELP STRUTTING AS WE PASSED THE FASHIONABLES"

"'THE DAY WE BEAT THE GERMANS AT CREMONA!'"

"THERE WE STOOD, WITH OUR PALE FACES"

"THERE THE GOOD MAN SATE, HOLDING ME IN HIS ARMS"

"I SAW CREACH ADVANCE TOWARDS ME"

"'GENTLEMEN! GLASSES ALL!'"

"THEN FATHER O'ROURKE SPAKE"

"'WILL NEVER RETURN TO SAY THEY SAW ME GO TO MY DEATH ALONE'"

"'FINE WORDS! BRAVE WORDS!' HE SNEERED"

"THE LAST STAND FOR PRINCE CHARLES WAS AT AN END"

"THERE! THAT IS CROWLIN"

"MANY WAS THE PLEASANT TALK HE HAD WITH MY FATHER"

"SHE STOOD ON HER WAY TOWARDS FRANCE AND SAFETY"

"'GIVE UP YOUR SWORD LIKE A GENTLEMAN!'"

"HE WAS FIGHTING FOR TIME"

SPANISH JOHN