“To you, an’ your division, Jim McKenna, I lave the picking out of four or five good men, safe to be intrusted with such a difficult matther! Jist notify the division to come together an’ select ’em, an’ have ’em come over an’ report to Mike O’Brien, here, who will find them a boardin’-place, payin’ for their kapin’ out of the county fund. Let them not be later than Saturday afternoon. If they can’t make their point on Bully Bill in three days, you relave them and sind over fresh fellows, an’ kape it up until the work be done. O’Brien will appoint those to lead the Shenandoah boys up to Bill, an’ ingineer the business through! Fail they must not! If they do, let them beware the power of the order! If Shenandoah can’t succeed, Roarty must sind men, an’ all the rest in turn, until the Modocs cry enough!” The Shenandoah Secretary made known his acceptance of the charge, and said he would see the division notified and convened. Canning inquired if any men were wanted from his part of the State, but Donnelly replied: “No! the job is a small one, and we can attend to it ourselves!” At first, and before the convention was called to order, the presence of the young man, Frank McHugh, had been objected to, but O’Brien said he was his Secretary, and insisted he should remain. Subsequently McHugh, a tall, very juvenile personage, with sandy hair and blue eyes—a mere boy, in point of fact—was directed to act as Secretary, and fabricate a record of proceedings which would show to outsiders, should chance reveal the fact of a meeting being held, transaction of business on some entirely different matter than the murder of Thomas and the Majors. Then, all having been arranged, the Mollies adjourned to dinner, of which they partook in Clark’s dining-room below. Kehoe enjoyed his food, and remarked to McKenna, in a low voice: “I think the reign of the Modocs is comin’ to an end, and Irishmen will soon have law in Mahanoy City, as in other parts of the State!” The King of the Mollies was elate and jubilant, and the operative was compelled to appear so, but he was far from feeling content with the share Kehoe had put upon him. It would not do to refuse, nor was it safe to exhibit reluctance.