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O'Malligan indignantly, "sure an' we moight have larned all about her by this toime, entoirely, for there's mony a thing she's tried to tell us an' can't for the want of a worrud.
So an attempt to punish the rich man as a criminal was futile. He could afford to pay for straw men. "Arrah!" said Dooley to Peter as they passed out of the court, "Oi think ye moight have given them a bit av yer moind." "Wait till the trial," said Peter. "We mustn't use up our powder on the skirmish line."
'Don't she have a bellyful o' vittels? asked John Crumb, with intense anxiety. 'I don't quite mean that. I dare say she has enough to eat. But of course she has to work for it with her aunt. She has three or four children to look after. 'That moight come in handy by-and-by; moightn't it, squoire? said John Crumb grinning.
I'm thinking, if ye worked off some o' your anger on him, it moight be for the young man's edification. Be quick! I hear the breeds returning!" "But I have a message," she said in choking tones. "From whom?" I asked aimlessly enough. "Eric Hamilton!" she answered. "Eric Hamilton!" both the priest and I shouted. "Yes why? What what is it?
You shall die a hundred deaths, and the Great Spirit of the Arapahoes will smile at the sacrifice!" "Be Jaysis, cyaptin!" cried O'Tigg, who, not understanding Spanish, was ignorant of what had been said, "that ugly owld Indyan wants a bit ov cowld lid through him. In troth, I b'lave the musket moight raich him.
"D'ye know, Oi thoucht ye'd say that. Well, 'tis ye're own funeral. Tellin' ye about me, Oi ain't lost no bird's-eye trees, mesilf, but av ye need help Be th' way, th' bunk above mine's empty; ye moight t'row ye're blankets in there." In the days that followed Bill threw himself into the work with a vigor that won the approval of the men.
He must ha' been innocent or he would ha' bolted straight away, and not coom back and gi'd hisself oop to justice. It were only his hiding away as maade oi think as he moight ha' done it. Noo in course he will be able to clear hisself; for if he was over at Painton, why, he couldn't be here that be plain to any one."
If tha knaws mea tha'll knaw I'm grandfeyther to two galls as moight be tha owern age; tha'll tell 'ee that old Debs at haaty years 'as warked and niver lost a day as man or boy; has niver coome oopen 'em for n'aporth. An' 'e'll keep out o' warkus till he doy. An' 'ee's put by enow to by wi' his own feythers in Lanksheer, an' not liggen aloane in parson's choorchyard."
She hesitated a moment, seemingly pondering with herself before she answered him. "Ay," she said, "but I ha' another reason behind. I want summat fro' yo': I want yo're pity. Happen it moight do her good even now." She did not look at him as she proceeded, but stood with her face a little turned away and her eyes resting upon the shadow on the mountain.
"No, Mrs. Murphy," he hastened to explain, "this is Keith Jack Keith, of the 'Bar X." "The Lord deliver us!" was the instant exclamation, the door opening wide. "They do be afther tellin' me to-night av the throuble ye was in over at Carson, an' Oi t'ought maybe ye moight turn up this way. It was a nate thrick ye played on the loikes av 'em, Jack, but this is a dom poor place fer ye ter hide in.
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