Chapter 1
Scarlett and Cat watched as Rhett hooked the rope ladder securely to the tower that the people of Ballyhara thought they were prisoners of. The night before there had been an uprising in the County Meath, and all over Ireland for that matter. Ballyhara had been one of the many places that mutiny had occurred.
While she had been running from the people with Rhett and Cat (Katie Collum O'Hara) their daughter, her right hand woman Rosaleen Fitzpatrick had been badly injured during an explosion that she had purposely caused during the Fenian uprising in the Protestant Church on the main street through Ballyhara where the Fenian's hid all their guns and ammunition.
Scarlett's cousin Father Collum O'Hara had started to do the wery same thing but had been shot down by the British soldiers who were there. The seven bullets that Father Collum O'Hara had taken that dreadful night would have killed a lesser man, but he was tough, and had good Irish blood in him, and so he was only knocked unconscious. When he woke he prayed to God in thanks.
He hopped upon hope that Scarlett aroon (Gaelic word for darling) and Katie Collum O'Hara (Cat for Scarlett) had made it through safely.
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Scarlett, Cat, and Rhett had finally made it down the ladder and realized that in order to get to Scarlett's cousin Kathleen's house, they would have to go back through Ballyhara, and as they walk along they prayed they would find it empty.