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An' poor Tim was kilt the way he wouldn't tell o' the boys that did it. 'Twas slugs they used, an' not bullets, but they fired at two or three yards, an' so close that the shot hasn't time to spread, an' 'tis as good as a cannon ball. Who were they? All boys belongin' to the place. Mrs. Blake dhropped, an' they thought she was dead, I believe.
Lave him to God; an' jist that you may feel what you ought to feel on the subject, suppose you were in his situation suppose for a minute that it was yourself that murdhered him then ask, would you like to be dragged out from us and hanged, in your ould age, like a dog a disgrace to all belongin' to you.
I asked among the cabmen at the station, and they all saw you and the gray man. So I knowed there was trouble afoot. "He took you around the corner, and there a milkman saw you all getting into the taxi. So I grabs another taxi I had money belongin' to Old to Mr. Gordon in my pocket. "That taxi-driver was a keen one, he was. He trailed your machine like he was trackin' a band of Injuns.
I can't remember anybody else belongin' to me not very well. Pete Tilton is his name. He's been a guide and hunter all his life. And of late years he got so queer before they took him away " "Took him away?" interrupted Ruth, "What do you mean by that?" "Why, I'll tell you," said Jerry, slowly. "He got wild towards the last. It was something about his money and papers that he lost.
Just as soon as I saw your little bit in the paper, I says, 'The Lord has opened a door! I gave Maud a hint that I would clear out some day and go where I would be let work, and the dear child says to me, 'Grandma, if I ever get a house of my own you can come and live with me, and you can do every bit of the work, and everyone will have to do just what you say; they'll have to go to bed at sundown if you say so. Maud's the best one I have belongin' to me.
"Why, sir," replied the man, "she tuck possession of a waste cabin and a bit o' garden belongin' to it; and Larry Sullivan, that owns it, was goin' to put her out, when, Lord save us, he and his whole family were saized with sickness, and then he sent word to her that if she'd take it off o' them and put it on some one else he'd let her stay." "And did she do so?"
She popped her thumb into her mouth, and looked shyly about from one to another, but never a word could I get her to say. "That's Lizzy," said the woman; "she is a little visitor belongin' to one o' the neighbours. They are badly off, and she often comes in. Sure, our childer is very fond of her, an' so she is of them. She is fine company wid ourselves, but always very shy wid strangers.
"Wal, now, railly, I declar ef I wan't thinkin o' that very spot myself. An I war thinkin, as I war a comin up the bay, that that thar isle of the ocean was about the only spot belongin to this here bay that hadn't been heerd from. An it ain't onlikely that them shores could a tale onfold that mought astonish some on us. I shouldn't wonder a mite." "Nor me," said Bennie, gravely.
Ef you're poor, she's a woman, and real lonesome too; she ha'n't got nuther chick nor child belongin' to her, and you're the only man she ever took any kind of a notion to. I guess 't would be jest as much for her good as yourn." "Hush, good Is-ray-el! it is good to stop there. She would not to marry after such years of goodness: she is a saint of the blessed."
Either that, or she'll lose her senses; for, indeed, Fergus, the darlin' girl was near losin' them wanst or twist as it is may God pity and relieve her." "Amen," replied Fergus. "And you're now on your way home, I suppose?" "I am," said Ellen, "and every thing belongin' to me is to be sent to my father's; but indeed, Fergus, I don't much care now what becomes of me.
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