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They looked at one another, and the man on Murphy's left whispered something. Bannon sat still, watching them. Then Grady came to himself. He wheeled around to face the committee, and threw out one arm in a wide gesture. "I demand to know what this means! I demand to know if there is a law in this land! Is an honest man, the representative of the hand of labor, to be attacked by hired ruffians?
The General was gaining a greater lead each time the Texas was checked. And seconds were counting. Fuller grabbed Murphy's arm, and said: "Look!" Far ahead they saw a black cloud of smoke. It was the General approaching the Reseca bridge. Tom slammed the door of the fire-box and climbed up on the seat beside Andrews, who was leaning half out of the window, absorbed in his own thoughts.
"Here, take the boss from me," Terence commanded, and passed Cappy to a negro fireman, who carried the old man forward and laid him on a pile of blankets, previously placed there for just such an emergency. Then the lifeboat commenced to drop away from the towering black topside and Cappy was aware of Michael J. Murphy's face white, anxious, terrified gazing down at him from the ship's rail.
"Let sister tie a stout thread around it, and you pull it out yourself," suggested Ruth, as a last resort. Finally Dot agreed to this. That is, she agreed to have the thread tied on. Neale climbed the back fence into Mr. Murphy's premises and obtained a waxed-end of the cobbler. This, he said, would not slip, and Ruth managed to fasten the thread to the root of the little tooth.
Murphy's wild announcement had carried conviction to the major's soul, despite all Feeny's pleadings, and the sight of that beacon furiously burning, the thought of those helpless women being borne off into the horrors of captivity among the Indians, had conspired to rouse the paymaster to unlooked-for assertion of himself and his authority.
A notice to the bank in Papeete, Island of Tahiti, that you've given Captain Michael J. Murphy a letter of credit for twenty-five thousand dollars only one notice for one letter of credit. I'm up to skullduggery. Man, man, why don't you dictate? Usual courtesies good customer of your bank you know; usual flubdub. No advice regarding Miss Keenan's letter of credit just Murphy's."
Now, as by means of the surgeon's leaving the door open the doctor heard Murphy's voice naming Robinson peevishly, he drew softly to the top of the stairs, where he heard the foregoing dialogue; and as soon as Murphy had uttered his last words, and was moving downwards, the doctor immediately sallied from his post, running as fast as he could, and crying, Stop the villain! stop the thief!
The children returned his potatoes with stones by way of interest, and hit him as often as he hit them. There was a high wall at the end of the garden, and Beth liked to sit on the top of it. She went there now, picked up her magpie, and climbed up with difficulty by way of Pat Murphy's broken bit.
You'd better round up the committee that's supposed to run this lodge and send them here. That young Murphy's one of them he can put you straight. Bring Pete back with you, and the new man, James." Max lingered, with a look of awe and admiration. "Are you going to stand out, Mr. Bannon?" he asked. Bannon dropped his feet to the floor, and turned toward the table. "Yes," he said.
He spoke to the dead man in the open grave; and when events that followed brought the words back to their minds some of these auditors repeated the vow he made: to color that knife-blade and his hands bright red with the blood of twenty men of Murphy's Diggings; and after that to devote his life to killing Americans.
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