He set off again. Turning into the next empty street, he saw two fellows up ahead: Lama and a chap called Denis Heffernan. They were headed where he was going – it was Heffernan who put the job their way. He ran to catch up and jumped in between them, slapping each of them on the back. “We’re on, so?”
“As on as we’ll ever be, boy,” said Heffernan.
Lama just nodded but Barney could see excitement rising off him like steam off boiling water. Frank Carty had got a tip-off that the enemy had secretly occupied the post office, planning to ambush Republicans from there. But the surprise would be the other way round: instead of them being ambushed, Ernie O’Malley was to lead them in an attack on the building, putting a brake on the army’s plans before they even had a chance to get them going.
