last time I was there, and to-day I am going to look at it, and I will show it to you-and I have told Terry to bring a spade and he and I are going to dig in the cave-ever, ever so deep down to see whether the little crabs are still there which I buried alive to know what would happen-do you think they could have got away, Kevin, when I buried them quite deep? Oh! here are Terry and the spade! come Terry!"

"I cannot take you with me to-day," I heard Kevin answer.

Then followed a clamour of expostulations from Ida. I could only catch part.

"Honor said I might! I have got the cheese-cakes and the spades all ready. The little crabs will die if I don't go to dig them up."

"It is very naughty to bury crabs. Of course they are all dead long ago. You must not play in Ballycarrig cave any more."

"Yes I must!" cried the child's clear voice, "I want some more of the yellow shells which I found there, and there are no yellow shells of that sort anywhere else but in Ballycarrig cave. You are very horrid, Kevin, and if

you won't take me I will make Terry take me in another boat."

"Terry may take you to some other place, but not to Ballycarrig cave. Little girls who kill crabs, must not go where crabs are to be found. Terry, you hear what I say ?"

And Kevin pushed his boat off and rowed relentlessly away, leaving Ida in a passion on the strand. Old Terry fell to consoling

her.

"Ah now, Miss Ida, f'what made yers go for to be so bould? Shure if ye'd airsked Misther Kivin soft-like, mebbe he'd have taken you wid him. But f'what mather? Shure it's no use to be vexed at all, at all. So lave off frettin' honey, and I'll take yer some place else."

"No, I don't want to go anywhere but to Ballycarrig," returned Ida sulkily. "Will you take me to Ballycarrig, Terry?" she added, brightening up.

"Yer heard f'what his honour said, Miss Ida."

"But it does not matter what he said,"

urged Ida. "He need not know anything about it. Do take me dear Terry!

You are

such a good, kind, clever old man, and I will ask Denis to buy me some tobacco for you."

The coaxing and bribery went on for some time, Terry deprecatingly averring that "his honour would kill him," Ida assuring him that did not signify. It ended in the usual way, Terry gave in, and Ida gained her point.

The expedition, however, did not seem to have given her satisfaction, for she came back at the end of the day and told me the story of her disappointment.

"All those pretty yellow shells are gone from Ballycarrig cave," she complained. "It looks quite different somehow. The ground is covered with only common shells and sand, just the same as the seashore. I thought the sea must have rolled into the cave and washed the old layer of shells away, but Terry says the sea never comes so far as that not even on the stormiest nights. But my grotto is all gone, every bit, and Terry and I had built it up so firmly only a fortnight ago! What ever can have happened to Ballycarrig cave? And I could not find

the little crabs anywhere. I could not dig deep enough, and Terry turned crusty and would not help me, and said it was time to go home when we had only just got there."

As soon as she had done talking, Ida ran away for fear of a scolding for having done what Kevin had forbidden her.

CHAPTER III.

May 22nd. This day brings sad news.. Father has received newspapers and letters from Dublin; they bear tidings of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's arrest. They have tracked him at last! Lord Edward was staying at the house of a feather merchant. Who it was who brought the information to the Castle is not known, but the Castle communicated the fact to the town-major who, with Captains Swan and Ryan, and attended by eight soldiers proceeded to the spot.

Lord Edward had gone to his room to lie down, when Captain Swan entered and told him he was a prisoner. A violent struggle followed, and both Lord Edward and Captain Ryan were severely wounded. A surgeon was immediately sent for ; he gave the opinion that Captain Ryan's injury was the most dangerous, and that Lord Edward's was not mortal.

"I am sorry to hear it," Lord Edward. said.