This paper is concerned with a compatible family of 4-dimensional \ell-adic
representations \rho_{\ell} of G_\Q:=\Gal(\bar \Q/\Q) attached to the space of
weight 3 cuspforms S_3 (\Gamma) on a noncongruence subgroup \Gamma \subset \SL.
For this representation we prove that: 1.)It is automorphic: the L-function
L(s, \rho_{\ell}^{\vee}) agrees with the L-function for an automorphic form for
\text{GL}_4(\mathbb A_{\Q}), where \rho_{\ell}^{\vee} is the dual of
\rho_{\ell}. 2.) For each prime p \ge 5 there is a basis h_p = \{h_p ^+, h_p ^-
\} of S_3 (\Gamma) whose expansion coefficients satisfy 3-term Atkin and
Swinnerton-Dyer (ASD) relations, relative to the q-expansion coefficients of a
newform f of level 432. The structure of this basis depends on the class of p
modulo 12. The key point is that the representation ρℓ admits a
quaternion multiplication structure in the sense of a recent work of Atkin, Li,
Liu and Long.Comment: Second revised version. To appear: Proceedings of the American
Mathematical Societ