about four in
the morning
They passed Loch Sheen , and soon afterwards another little lake , lying also to the left of the road , and then they found themselves in the small village of Cashcarrigan . This they passed through silently and quickly and without speaking a word , and having proceeded about half a mile on the road towards Ballinamore , they again left it and took to the fields . They went along the northern margin of Loch Dieney , running where the ground was hard enough , at other times stepping from one dry sod to another , through gaps and fences , which seemed as well known to Thady 's guides as the cabins in which they had passed their lives . They left Drumshambo to their left , and at about four in the morning they came to Loch Allen . Here they got upon a road which for some way skirts the eastern side of the lake , along which they ran for about a mile and a half , and then turned into a small boreen or path , and began to ascend the mountains . `` Asy boys , now , '' said Corney ; `` we 're all right when we 're here ; an ' , by the powers ! I 'm hot , '' and the man began wiping his brow with his sleeve .