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Some, thought he would be tried and shot, some that he would be carried back in irons; and all agreed that if any one else than Fremont had put on such airs, and had acted as he had done, Kearney would have shown him no mercy, for he was regarded as the strictest sort of a disciplinarian.
"George Kearney!" echoed Christie, for a moment believing the excitement had turned her father's brain. "You know he is not here; he is in San Francisco." "He is here I tell you," said Carr impatiently; "he has been here ever since the high water, trying to save the flume and reservoir." "George here!" Christie could only gasp. "Yes!
The presence of the Queen, the beautiful Princess of Wales, the Prince, and the British public are marks of favor which reflect back on America sparks of light which illuminate many a house and cabin in the land where once you guided me honestly and faithfully, in 1865-66, from Fort Riley to Kearney, in Kansas and Nebraska. Sincerely your friend,
'Had you accorded me a very little patience, I might, perhaps, have explained myself. Not trusting himself with a word, Kearney nodded, and the other went on: 'The post this morning brought me, among other things, these two newspapers, with penmarks in the margin to direct my attention.
'I'll write to-night when the house is quiet, and there's no racket nor disturbance about me. Now though Kearney said this with a perfect conviction of its truth and reasonableness, it would have been very difficult for any one to say in what that racket he spoke of consisted, or wherein the quietude of even midnight was greater than that which prevailed there at noonday.
While Atlee knew Kearney in every fold and fibre of his nature, Kearney had not the very vaguest conception of him with whom he sat every day at meals, and communed through almost every hour of his life.
He contests the seat in the National interest. It is needless to say all our sympathies, and hopes, and best wishes go with him." Dick shook with laughing while the other read out the paragraph in a high-sounding and pretentious tone. 'I hope, said Kearney at last, 'that the information as to my college successes is not vouched for on authority. 'Who cares a fig about them?
'I don't think they can be more than three miles away. 'Have you rooms ready, if there be two coming? 'Yes, papa, Mr. Walpole will have his old quarters; and the stag-room is in readiness if there be another guest. 'I'd like to have a house as big as the royal barracks, and every room of it occupied! cried Kearney, with a mellow ring in his voice.
I once got the figure up to nine shillings by supplementing an umbrella, which was Dick's, and which still remains, "unclaimed and unredeemed." 'Two o'clock, by all that is supperless! evidently Kearney is enjoying himself. Ah, youth, youth! I wish I could remember some of the spiteful things that are said of you not but on the whole, I take it, you have the right end of the stick.
The annals of Kilronan further relate that the O'Caharneys became adherents of the English dropping their Irish designation, and calling themselves Kearney; and in this way were restored to a part of the lands and the castle of Kilgobbin 'by favour of which act of grace, says the chronicle, 'they were bound to raise a becoming monument over the brave knight, Hugh de Lacy, whom their kinsman had so treacherously slain; but they did no more of this than one large stone of granite, and no inscription thereon: thus showing that at all times, and with all men, the O'Caharneys were false knaves and untrue to their word.
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