Lolling at his vile ease in chariot gay, His face, nay, even his fearful name, unhidden! Uncloaked abroad, 'neath all the eyes of day, Which--as he passeth--close, while breath is hushed,-- Unspat upon, untrampled down, uncrushed, I've seen the seven-fold traitor! &c. Reynolds had a habit of leaving his card on men the buckles of whose shoes he was unworthy to burnish. Amongst others whom he thought that by doing so he honoured, was Dr. Daniel Haliday, of Paris, who represented a family distinguished in Irish letters. In Haliday's hall there hung a fine portrait of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Turning its face to the wall, and sticking Reynolds's card on it, he said to his servant: 'When he again comes, refer him to this picture.' Reynolds, of course, repeated the visit, and felt the rebuff the more because Lord Edward was not among the men he had betrayed. The late Charles Haliday, to whom I owe this story of his uncle, shared the rather general belief as to Reynolds having informed against the Geraldine, while the now convicted Magan, who lived close to Charles Haliday on the banks of the Liffey, failed to incur his suspicion. One fine day in August 1836, when Paris was _en fête_, Reynolds died, and his remains were brought to England and consigned to the vaults of Wilton Church, Yorkshire. By a coincidence Dr. Haliday died at the same time, as appears from his epitaph in the picturesque graveyard of Dundrum near Dublin. When struck down by death at Paris, he had been engaged on a History of the Irish Brigade. FOOTNOTES: [685] _Life of Reynolds_, by his Son, ii. 514. Mr. A. F. Reynolds, the biographer, died in 1856, after having long filled the post of stamp-distributor for the East Riding of Yorkshire. [686] Sir W. Cope died Jan. 9, 1892. [687] The full text of the correspondence I have published elsewhere. The letters of Reynolds are full of bad spelling. [688] _Cornwallis_, ii. 375. [689] _Life of Thomas Reynolds_, by his Son, i. 103. [690] Frank Thorpe Porter, police magistrate, to W. J. F., May 30, 1860. [691] _Life of Thomas Reynolds_, by his Son, ii. 445. CHAPTER XXI ARMSTRONG AND THE SHEARESES--GENERAL LAWLESS Armstrong was another man who, unlike Turner and Magan, boldly betrayed, and by baring his name to popular odium, bared his breast to its penalties. He lived to old age in a district specially burrowed by agrarian crime; but, though often taunted with his treachery, never suffered a pin-scratch at the hands of the people. Before Armstrong comes on the scene it is well to give some account of the men he so cruelly betrayed.[692] This becomes the more imperative, inasmuch as unpublished letters of Sheares, containing important explanations, were placed in my hands for historic use by the late Mr. Justice Hayes.