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With her father moonin' round in a kind of trance, and the yogi lookin' at her with eyes like live coals, and a snake that stood on its tail, and the other naygur going around with nothin' on but a diaper, I thought she needed somebody to look after her; and says I, 'Annie Crogan, you're the girl to do it!" There was a ripple of laughter and the pencils of the reporters flew across their paper.
Most conspicuous among them was drunken Bill Greene. Three months ago he would have been kicked out of a company section house or passed by a Brotherhood man without a nod. Then he was "Old Bill;" now they called him Billy. In his palmy days he had wooed, and won the heart of Maggie Crogan, a pretty waitress in the railway eating-house at Zero Junction.
To the end of his life he felt his loss; and when he was offered, fifteen years later, the chance of going back to his beloved Derreen, he shrank from the associations it would have recalled. He took a house for his family in Wales, which he described in the following letter to Lady Derby: "CROGAN HOUSE, Corwen, June 3rd, 1874.
At night we would meet, count our earnings, and give them to Mr. Crogan, who kept the cellar in Water street, where we slept. I left Hag Zogbaum, who we got to calling the wizard. She got all we could earn or pilfer, and we got nothing for our backs but a few rags, and unwholesome fish and beer for our bellies.
"You've got your men watching the house, I suppose?" I asked, at last, turning to Simmonds. "Yes; and we managed to score one little point to-day." "What was that?" "I found out that Annie Crogan, the housemaid over there, had a cousin on the force, so I got him out here and he managed to have a talk with her.
But they couldn' lay the ghost no more arter; an' it was a devil-ghost, which is the worstest kind; an' it stuck close to thicky lyin' man an' wouldn' leave en nohow. But at last a white witch bound the spirit an' condemned it to empty out Dosmery Pool wi' a crogan wi' a hole in it. A crogan's a limpet shell, which you mightn't knaw, Mister Jan.
"I am Dyke Darrel." "The same." "Dyke Darrel, the railroad detective; the fellow who captured the brute Crogan, and broke up the counterfeiters' nest near Iron Mountain; the man who has sent more criminals over the road than any other detective in the wide West YOU?" "The same, at your service," and Darrel bowed and smiled again. "Well, I AM astonished."
"There's nothing to be afraid of," Godfrey assured her. "Your mistress isn't dead she'll soon come around. But you must get her undressed and to bed. And then keep bathing her face with cold water till the doctor comes. Understand?" "Ye yes, sir," faltered the girl. "But oh!" and a burst of hysterical sobbing choked her. Simmonds shook her again. "Don't be a fool, Annie Crogan!" he said.
At night we would meet, count our earnings, and give them to Mr. Crogan, who kept the cellar in Water street, where we slept. I left Hag Zogbaum, who we got to calling the wizard. She got all we could earn or pilfer, and we got nothing for our backs but a few rags, and unwholesome fish and beer for our bellies.
We were very soon after in our saddles, bearing down with all speed in that direction for the express purpose of joining in the fight but on arriving, we found that the enemy had been signally repulsed by the brave little garrison under the command of Major Crogan.
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