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"Here we are, Louis; and, so far as my plan is concerned, we are euchred. It is a failure," said Captain Scott, as he took a survey of the surroundings, which remained precisely the same as they had been from the beginning. "Through no fault of the plan or yourself, Captain. If there was no channel here to deep water, of course you could not pass through it," replied Louis.
He muttered, for Natalie's ear alone: "S'pose you heard that Cap'n Barry and Mr. Little was euchred by a naval party, didn't you?" "Yes, of course. But that cannot be in any way connected with Mr. Vandersee. He's on leave, you know, for private business.
The Major undertook to explain matters, but the sentinels along the line commenced to fire at him and he beat a hasty retreat into camp, where he dreamed all night of the officer who euchred him out of an escape. But the Major was not to be foiled out of a successful escape.
"Not at all; I have no fear that they will do that, for they are looking for my money, for I have some concealed on my premises where they will never find it," said the planter with a significant shake of the head, which was as much as to say, "I have euchred them!" "I suppose the banks in this part of the State are no longer safe repositories for valuables," added Deck.
"'Ye know enough to know when you're euchred, says I. An' then I turned to considerin' the place I was in, an' how I was to git out of it. "To git out of it, indeed! The more I considered, the more I wondered how I'd ever managed to stay in it. It wasn't bigger than three foot by two, or two an' a half, maybe, in width, out from the cliff-face.
You could go back perhaps, he hasarded, still thinking of the very unpleasant scene at Westland Row terminus when it was perfectly evident that the other two, Mulligan, that is, and that English tourist friend of his, who eventually euchred their third companion, were patently trying as if the whole bally station belonged to them to give Stephen the slip in the confusion, which they did.
"We call this a station," went on Dunlap, "because it's a stopping-place on the U. G. Railway." "What's the U. G. Railway?" I asked. "Don't you know that?" he queried. "I'm only a canal hand," I answered, "going to a farm out on the prairie, that I was euchred into taking in settling with a scoundrel for my share of my father's property; and I'm pretty green."
"You heard how Mason, the Chicago man, euchred the Mukton gang, didn't you?" he had shouted to a friend one night at the Magnolia "Oh, listen! boys. They set up a job on him, he's a countryman, you know a poor little countryman from a small village called Chicago he's got three millions, remember, all in hard cash. Nice, quiet motherly old gentleman is Mr. Mason butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
He then went on with a lot of sickening details and when he got through he found that the younger men had not eaten any dinner. The older men paid no attention to him and worked right ahead to the pie and toothpick stage, but the younger fellows had been euchred out of dinner and went back to work with wabbly steps and empty stomachs. This convinced me that the investigator was a false alarm.
No! well, it's no use looking ugly, there are men at either door waiting for you. This is a new trick, Stephens, and you haven't played it neatly." "Euchred!" gasped the little man, while the other scowled at me. "Confusion to you! In another hour I'd have been rustling for the Great Republic. Still, I guess the game's up. Don't be a mule, Fletcher; I'm going quietly."
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