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His little cabin lay about two miles from Fort Garry, and after work was over in the office I used to go down to sit and chat with him by the fire; and many a time I have sat up half the night listening to him as he recounted his adventures. The old man never tired of relating them, and of smoking twist tobacco.
"My aunt says I am an idiot, and Corinne won't speak to me." "And your uncle?" "Nothing, to me. He told Garry that if I didn't come back in three days I should never enter his house or his office again." "But you are going back? Are you not?" "No, never. Not if I starve!" Peter's eyes were twinkling when he related the conversation to me the next day.
"Bud, keep out'n the kitchen. Stranger, you be ridin' on. I don't know you and I don't want to know you. A man that beats on doors with his gun!" Andrew laughed, and the sound brought her into view, a furious face, but a curious face as well. She carried a long rifle slung easily under her stout arm. "What d'you want with Garry?" she asked.
"I suppose we must stay on here until Garry finishes the new church. I haven't seen much of Ruth, or of you, either, Jack. But I don't see much of anybody now, not even of Garry. He never gets home until midnight, or even later, if the train is behind time, and it generally is." "Then he must have lots of new work," cried Jack in a cheerful tone.
If there is anything of value in this Warehouse Company, Arthur Breen & Co. can carry the certificates for Minott until they go up and he can get out. If there is nothing, then the sooner Garry sells out and lets it go the better. Stay out, Jack. It's not in the line of your duty. It's hard on his wife and he is having a devil of a row to hoe, but it will be the best thing for him in the end."
"`It's lucky for you two dunder-headed ignoramases! he went on to say in a nasty sneerin' way the baste had with him whin he was angry and was any way put out. `Preshous lucky for you, Misther Terence Mahony, an' you, too, Garry O'Neil, that I chanced to come afther you, thinkin' ye'd be up to some mischief, or else ye'd have put your foot in it with a vengeance an' murthered between you this poor, harmless ould woman lying here.
"Yesterday I cut a green lizard in two that had got on my plate, mistaking him for a bit of salad being, as usual, more intent on my book than my food and had very near swallowed the tail-half of the unfortunate animal." "There are worse things than lizards in the world," quoth Garry.
And Garry curiously enough caught the tantalizing charm of her sweetness that had baffled many an older and wiser man. Shadows had no part in the wonder of Kenny's winter, but an inclination to forget his quarrel with Brian and his flare of penance, violent and incomplete for he had never reached the longed-for grail of his son's forgiveness troubled him vaguely.
Then followed an account of the flight and journeying of the two Osmund Maiden and Myles Rudstone how they traveled in haste from Montreal to Fort Garry, from the fort to the northern wilderness, where they were attacked by a party of treacherous Indians. My father was struck down and left for dead, and was found by the factor of Fort Beaver, who nursed him until he was recovered.
"Why, it was partly curiosity, and partly because we heard that there was considerable smuggling in this part of the country, it being so near to the Canadian border line," said Garry cautiously.
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