Please write or wire me in London to 16 Keppel Street, Russell Square, where I shall call on Tuesday. DUBLIN, _Monday night, October_ 4, 1880. Just arrived.... I write you on the only bit of paper to be found at this late hour (a scrap taken from one of your own notes), to say that I hope to reach London to-morrow (Tuesday) evening and to see you on Wednesday when and where you wish. Please write or wire me to Keppel Street. This envelope will present the appearance of having been tampered with, but it has not. DUBLIN, _Tuesday evening, October_ 5, 1880. A frightful gale has been blowing all day in Channel and still continues. {73} Under these circumstances shall postpone crossing till to-morrow evening. Can meet you in London at 9 to-morrow evening anywhere you say. DUBLIN, _Monday evening, October_ 17, 1880. MY OWN LOVE,--You cannot imagine how much you have occupied my thoughts all day and how very greatly the prospect of seeing you again very soon comforts me. On Monday evening I think it will be necessary for me to go to Avondale; afterwards I trust, if things are propitious on your side, to return to London on Tuesday or Wednesday.--Yours always, C. AVONDALE, RATHDRUM, _October_ 22, 1880. I was very much pleased to receive your wire this morning, forwarded from Dublin, that you had received my note of last Saturday. I was beginning to fear that it had gone wrong. After I had finished at Roscommon and received your message in Dublin on Monday I decided upon coming here where I have been unexpectedly detained. If all goes well you will see me in London on Monday evening next.... I send you enclosed one or two poor sprigs of heather, which I plucked for you three weeks ago, also my best love, and hope you will believe that I always think of you as the one dear object whose presence has ever been a great happiness to me. Meanwhile the Government had been temporizing with the land question. They had brought in a very feeble Compensation for Disturbances Bill and they had allowed it to be further weakened by amendments. This Bill was rejected by the House of Lords, with the result that the number of evictions in Ireland grew hourly greater and the agitation of the Land League against them; outrages, too, were of common occurrence and increased in intensity. {74} Speaking at Ennis on September 19th Mr. Parnell enunciated the principle which has since gone by the name of "The Boycott." "What are you to do," he asked, "to a tenant who bids for a farm from which another tenant has been evicted?" Several voices cried: "Shoot him!"