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An' I guess it ain't a word that'll come between Mooney and me not if Mooney gits his thousand." Suddenly he turned upon her, a hand half raised to strike. "An' if you whisper a word to her if y' double-cross me so much as the length of your little finger I'll break every bone in your body, so help me God! You understand? You won't say anything to her?" The woman's uneven shoulders drooped lower.
We learn from the Advocate of that city, that the persons engaged were Wm. S. Mooney and Kenyon Mooney, his son, Edward Bell, and Bushrod Bell, Jr. The first received a wound in the abdomen, made by that fatal instrument, the Bowie knife, which caused his death in about fifteen hours.
Teddy Mooney," he said, after they had travelled together a mile or two from Ballyglunin, and had come almost to the spot at which the poor boy had been shot, "tell me what you know about Mr. Lax's movements in this part of the world." He had never come there before since the fatal day without having three policemen with him, but now he was alone.
But he was one who simply thought that his bread might be better buttered for him on that side of the question. He was not an ardent politician; but few local Irishmen were so. Had no stirring spirits been wafted across the waters from America to teach Irishmen that one man is as good as another, or generally better, Kit Mooney would never have found it out.
I was going to ask you to take Nelson, or Mooney, or both of them, into your confidence. Then you would arrange that Mrs. Beaudesart should overhear you discussing some horrible scandal in connection with me.
He knew enough about that city to know that its mysteries and possibilities of mystification were infinite. The more he thought, however, the more wretched his situation became. He saw that getting here did not exactly clear up the ground. The firm would probably employ detectives to watch him-Pinkerton men or agents of Mooney and Boland. They might arrest him the moment he tried to leave Canada.
Mooney began to think of sending Polly back to typewriting when she noticed that something was going on between Polly and one of the young men. She watched the pair and kept her own counsel. Polly knew that she was being watched, but still her mother's persistent silence could not be misunderstood.
"Here," said Toal, clapping down his pound. "Jack Mooney, put these in your pocket till this matther's decided. Now, Jerry, let us hear it." "I will; he won't drink two tumblers of punch, runnin'; that is, one afther the other." "No," observed Art, "I will not; do you want me to break the pledge?" "Sure," said Jerry, "this is not breaking the pledge it's only for a wager."
Her face as he bent over her glowed with a sudden terror. "Mooney girls," repeated Brander. His hands reached her shoulders and held her carelessly as she squirmed. "You're hurting me." "I'll hurt you more. Talk out now. Are you in love with that loon?" "Yes." "More than me?" "Yes." Brander's face reddened. His hand struck her chin. Rachel shut her eyes to hold back tears. "Are you still?" "Yes.
"I saw him only this afternoon," said Joe. "He had Lutz and Mooney with him, of course, and they all looked at me as though they'd like nothing better than to heave a brick at me when I wasn't looking. Buck asked me how the wireless 'phone was coming along, and when I told him that we had our aerial up and expected to be receiving stuff within a few days, he seemed surprised."
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