The police were informed, and at a place known as
McKenna's Fort Casement was found concealed. He said he was an author.
Richard Morton, of Denham, Buckinghamshire, and that he had written the Life of St. Brandon. The principal writing on him at the time was a code for various military emergencies. One of the policemen who was asked why he went to McKenna's Fort made the delightful answer that it was a good place to look for "prisoners "—throwing his mind forward so as to embrace the whole world as potentially captured under the Defence of the Realm Act, rather as a doctor might regard all men as patients on the principle that if they are not ill now they soon will be. WI ea Casement was covered with a pistol, he exclaimed : " That's a nice way to treat an English traveller ! " In the train, after his capture, Casement was told of the Sinn Fein rebels who had been coming to the coast in a motor-car and had plunged into Lake Caragh. Casement broke down and sobbed. " I am very sorry about those two lads. It was on my account they came. They were two good Irishmen. I know that water well."
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