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"It's a bargain," said Bartle; "I don't care a trawneen; I'll stay where I am, thin, an' do you go beyant; let us hurry, too, for, if I'm not mistaken, it's too sultry to be long without rain, the sky, too, is gettin' dark." "I observed as much myself," said Connor; "an' that was what made me spake."
Good-night to ye, the winda wi' the leight, mon, roight next beyant the tchurtch!" The car began its coughing and spluttering, and slowly jerked itself into motion, its driver going angrily on his unthankful way.
"Fer a sick la-ad ye're a wonder, ye are that," he smiled at Johnny, "but ye want to kape away from the water fronts. Good-bye to ye both, an' a pleasant journey home. The town is tin miles to me right, over beyant them hills." "Good-bye, Hogan," mumbled Hopalong gratefully.
The more religious of them declared that the ghost would hold communion only with a certain priest, who came once a year, at midnight, to invoke in an unknown tongue a blessing on her troubled spirit. "The divel's soundin'-stone is it ye's wants?" ejaculated Mr. Brophy. "Shure, it's beyant a mile, about perhaps two perhaps not so many perhaps more. Much good may it do ye's when ye's finds it.
For of all the folks needs the mendin' an' patchin', 'tis she, with her seven own childer, an' her ten boardin' 'hands, an' her own man, that was gardener to some great folks beyant, laid up with the chills an' not able to do a hand's turn for himself, barrin' eatin' an' drinkin' fair, when the victuals is ready.
"A notch beyant my measure," said a third. "Then let's see what it is," said I, and off we dashed at a rapid gait. As we approached the river, we saw to the right of the road a new clearing on a hill, from which several men were running down toward the river like wild Indians. There appeared no time to be lost, so we all cut ahead for the crossing.
Oh dear, oh dear! that I should live to see it taken off of us that way! And there's me pot that I biled mornin' an' evenin' these years an' years!" "Och, musha, lave the pot," retorted Pat; "sure what good is the pot to us when we haven't a bit to put in it? Troth, now the ould sckamer beyant has Mike in prison, we may give up altogether.
Then, as he raised his eyes to Bart's, he evidently read something in his general air, touselled and tanned as he was, that shifted his opinion at least one notch. "Maybe, sor, you're an actor mon, sor, that didn't suit the folks in the town beyant, sor, but I'd take it as praise, so I would, for shure they're but pigs there, I couldn't stop wid thim meself!
'There must be some mistake. 'No, sur, it's yourself; and he's waiting in the hall, beyant. 'Well, I'll go to No, tell him to come here. 'Sorry to disturb you, sir, said the M.P., with a huge brass star on his breast, appearing with great alacrity at the waiter's elbow. 'B'lieve this is your black valise? 'Yes, that is ours, certainly. It has Julia's the lady's things in it.
"This is what we've found," giving the chest a kick that betrayed a certain amount of temper "but beyant a gallon or so of pearls there's nothin' in it but pebbles; and I'd like ye to say whether you think them pebbles is worth annything or not."
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