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"What have you come here for, Cy King, or whatever your name is." "My name Ki Sing." "Well, it's a haythen name; anyhow," remarked Mr. Patrick O'Eeilly. "Before I'd have such a name, I'd go widout one intirely. Did you hear the gintleman ask you what you came here for?" "You bling me," answered Ki Sing shrewdly. There was another laugh. "That Chinee ain't no fool!" said Dick Roberts.
"Do ye think I hae naething ither to do than to grin' the grandur o' an auld haythen into spunemate for a young sinner like you?" "Ye dinna ken what I'm like, Mr Cupples," returned Alec, remembering his landlady's injunction not to be afraid of him. "Come athort the reek, and lat's luik at ye."
"Good heavens!" thought Dewey, "does he mean to kill the poor Chinaman?" A muttered sentence from O'Reilly reassured him on this point. "Now, you yeller haythen, I'll cut off your pigtail in spite of that impertinent friend of yours Dick Dewey. I'll show you that an O'Reilly isn't to be interfered wid." "So he wants the poor fellow's queue, does he?" said Dewey to himself.
"Two wives, the bog-trotter!" gulped Owen. "John McGillis is a blayguard!" "Oui, what you call Irish," assented Léon; and he dodged, but the cobbler threw nothing at him. Owen marked with the awl on his own leather apron. "First a haythen and then a quarther-brade," he tallied against his countryman. "He will be takin' his quarther-brade to the praste before the boats go gut?"
The poor miserable baste of a haythen hed some larnin', an' the minit he showed me I knowed it was so, fur ivery lafe wuz three in wan an' wan in three, an' had the sign o' the blessed crass in the middle as plain as that biler settin' on the stove."
"You're in haythen darkness, Jeroboam, and I haven't the wisdom or the knowledge or the holiness to lade ye out; but there's one prayer can be said in darkness as well as in light.
"That's what I say, docthor," answered Tommy, "but the bloody haythen wudn't let him in." "How's this, Swipey?" said the doctor sternly, turning to the saloon-keeper, who still stood in the door. "He's not comin' in here. How do I know what he's got?" "I'll take that responsibility," replied the doctor. "In he goes. Here, take him up on the robe, men. Steady, now."
In truth, Barnay, who knew the waters of the Atlantic fairly well, was sorely tried to take orders from the two little brown strangers who, he averred, consulted a "haythen apparaytus" which they would cheerfully let him see but of which he could "make no more than av the spach av a fish," and then directed him to take courses which lay far outside the beaten tracks of the high seas. St.
"The haythen will sleep in Dewey's tent. Why can't I creep up, unbeknownst, in the middle of the night, and cut off his pigtail, while he is aslape? Faith, I'd like to see how he and his friend would look in the morning. I don't belave a word of his not bein' allowed to go back to Chiny widout it. That is an invintion of Dewey," The more O'Reilly dwelt upon this idea the more it pleased him.
He was disposed to be cautious, and did not mean to leave his present place of security until he should be apprised by his hostess that Pietro had gone. Bridget McGuire kept on with her washing. She had been once to the front room, and, looking through the blinds, had ascertained that Pietro was still there. "He'll have to wait long enough," she said to herself, "the haythen!
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