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As it was, I felt the "wind" of the bullet, and already began to suffer a painful sensation over the eye. "I'm mighty curious to know which of us the fellow has missed, Captain," said Hennessy, turning to me as he spoke. "If it were not a `bull' I should say I hope neither of us. I'm inclined to think, with Colonel Harding, that it was altogether an accident."
After the duck came the brandy, both men having declined dessert. And over the brandy that ultra-rare Five Star Hennessy which is procurable only by certain people and is believed by many not to exist at all Captain Lacey finally asked the question that had been bothering him for so long. "Thorn," he said, "three months ago that battery didn't exist. I know it and you know it.
'What's this man charged with? says th' coort. 'He was found in possession iv tin millyon dollars, says th' polisman. An' th' judge puts on th' black cap." "Well," said Mr. Hennessy, "'tis time they got what was comin' to thim." "I'll not say ye're wrong," said Mr. Dooley. "I see th' way me frind Jawn D. feels about it.
Hennessy, with some misgivings. "Ye don't know what ye're talkin' about," retorted the philosopher. "Ye ought to go back to school an' study gee-ography. Th' place he come back to was Oostoc, Norway, between Coopenhaagen an' an' Rogers Park." "Maybe ye're right," said Mr. Hennessy. "Annyhow, he come back, chased be a polar bear.
He may find flyin' machines, though it'll be arly f'r thim, but he'll see a good manny people still walkin' to their wurruk." "What's an expert witness?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "An expert witness," said Mr. Dooley, "is a doctor that thinks a man must be crazy to be rich. That's thrue iv most iv us, but these doctors don't mean it th' way I do.
"Well," said Mr. Dooley, "Th' las' I heerd iv Adly, I didn't hear annythin', an' th' las' I heerd iv Tiddy he'd made application to th' naytional comity f'r th' use iv Mack as a soundin' board." "It's always been a wondher to me," said Mr. Hennessy, "ye niver marrid." "It's been a wondher to manny," Mr. Dooley replied haughtily.
He also acted as their almoner, and distributed relief to the sick, the poor, and the distressed, and thus passed his pious, harmless, and inoffensive, but useful life. Now all these circumstances were noted by Hennessy, who had been on the lookout, to make a present of this good old man to his new patron, Sir Robert.
He can print the yarn in his newspaper and in some magazine, and can use all the photos. Then these people will find themselves so well known that about all of them value as spies will be gone." "By Jove, but that's a clear-headed idea," muttered Trotter, rising from his chair. "It will do the trick, too. Where is this man, Hennessy?" "Stopping at the Clayton, sir."
"I see be th' pa-aper th' stage is goin' to th' dogs what with it's Sappho's an' th' like iv that," said Mr. Hennessy. "Well, it isn't what it used to be," said Mr. Dooley, "in th' days whin 'twas th' purpose iv th' hero to save th' honest girl from the clutches iv th' villin in time to go out with him an' have a shell iv beer at th' Dutchman's downstairs.
Hennessy, who had learned to study his friend in order to escape disagreeable complications, patiently waited for the philosopher to speak. Mr. Dooley rubbed the bar to the end, tossed the cloth into a mysterious recess with a practised movement, moved a glass or two on the shelf, cleaned his spectacles, and drew a letter from his pocket. "Hm-m!" he said: "I have news fr'm th' fr-ront.
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