8 p.m.
He stood us drinks and let O'Farrelly look at the gun . It was there all right and Ballymahon was entirely surrounded . We got back about five o'clock , with an ultimatum written out on a sheet of paper . Unless O'Farrelly and his whole army had marched out and laid down their arms by 8 p.m. the town would be shelled without further warning . You 'd have thought that would have knocked the heart out of O'Farrelly , considering that he had n't a dog 's chance of breaking through . But it did n't . He became cheerfuller than I 'd seen him before , and said that the opportunity he 'd always longed for had come at last .