Inside Charlie Reilly there was no room for anything but hatred for the English; Percy was different. All I was sure of was that he was an insipid person with affinity aligned to only himself. Both men, however, had experienced abuse of many kinds whilst at Grange Manor, under Montague"s care, which neither forgot. Charlie took his revenge through the brutality he helped to finance for the Republican Army, introducing Percy to their number and his passage to higher stakes. Percy had something of extreme value that needed hiding somewhere safe; far from Ireland. The only reason I had at that stage for his enlisting in the territorials was to further both their ends. Charlie would have an asset within the British military who perhaps could assist his Irish friends and Percy could forget the
