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"I didn't either, if you come to that," retorted O'Connor, promptly. The financier's irritation was increased by this unexpectedly reckless attitude on the part of the man who should, he felt, be abased in sackcloth before him. He regarded the other with surprise, through his indignation. "You take this remarkably coolly, I should say," he remarked.
"It is said there is a distant relation of theirs, a gentleman named O'Connor, a Ferdora O'Connor, I think, who, it is supposed, is likely to be successful there; but, by the way, are you aware that they are Catholics?" "As to that, my dear mother, I don't care a fig for her religion; my religion is her property, or rather will be so when I get it.
"Yes, but look at that Elijah go!" muttered O'Connor. "Let him go!" said Engle, with a trace of irritation. "He'll come back; he always does. Bet you fifty he's last!" "Got you!" snapped O'Connor. "You may not know any more about this one than you did about Elisha last month!" The dots of colour skimmed around the upper turn, one of them so far ahead that it seemed lonely.
Keep a sharp lookout down there, and be sure no one escapes." "Don't you think, Captain O'Connor, that it will be a good thing to enter from there also the moment a row is heard going on within. Their attention will be taken up with your attack, and we may get in without being noticed." "That's a very good idea, Conway; and you shall carry it out.
"'Why, says he presently, 'that was all a little joke fixed up by the boys around the court-room, and one or two of our cut-ups, and a few clerks in the stores. The town is bursting its sides with laughing. The boys made themselves up to be conspirators, and they what you call it? stick Senor O'Connor for his money. It is very funny. "'It was, says I. 'I saw the joke all along.
O'Connor's elaborate mechanism for befogging his trail was entirely wasted, for the President, so far as could be learned, said not a thing on the subject to anybody. He took home the papers O'Connor had left him, and studied them, presumably alone, for several days. He did not seek to cross-examine O'Connor's witnesses.
The interpreter scratched his head, and gave us as a translation three best bets: 'Fortune had got a face like the man fighting'; 'Fortune looks like a brave man'; and 'Fortune favors the brave. We put our money on the last one. "'Do ye see? says O'Connor. 'She intends to encourage me sword to save her country. "'It looks to me like an invitation to supper, says I.
There was an expression in his eyes which she did not quite understand, and therefore distrusted; and she hurriedly turned the conversation into another channel. "If you flatter me by regarding my departure as one catastrophe, what is the other?" she asked. "What has happened? Is it something to do with O'Connor?" "Well, it's all part of the same thing, I suppose," he said.
O'Connor, the schoolmaster, whose inexpressibles he was turning for the third time, entered the workshop. Mr. O'Connor, himself, was as finished a picture of misery as the tailor.
"My name, seh, is Bucky O'Connor." At the words a certain fear, followed by a look of triumph, passed over the face of Chaves. It was as if he had had an unpleasant shock that had instantly proved groundless. Bucky did not at the time understand it. "Why don't you shoot? It's about your size, you pinhead, to kill an unarmed man." "Tell all you know and I promise you your life."
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