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Th' divvil bent over me wid a knoife in his hands, an' Oi saw murther in his oies. Thin Oi didn't wait, but Oi shot him through th' head." "But I don't understand what all this has to do with the fear you profess to feel," said Hatch. "I didn't fancy you were a coward, O'Toole." "No more Oi am; but Porrfeeus dil Noort is a moighty dangerous mon, and he " "Is dead. You're not afraid of dead men?"

He struggled to control his speech as his eyes rested on the rear stairway, but his words became more and more inarticulate until, with a shudder and a gasp, he fell heavily to the floor. "Oi gewoldt!" Abe exclaimed. He rushed to the office for a glass of water, but even before he had reached the cooler he stopped suddenly.

Pepper can go over there behind those bushes and watch the road. Don can watch the door, and I will go on the other side and look out for the window." "And phat will Oi be doing?" asked Gerald, who could not resist his fun-making instincts. "You can hide down by the shore and watch the river." "We ought to have some kind of a signal if we hear them coming," suggested Pepper.

It was with difficulty that she was quieted and made to tell what she knew. "Where were you from ten o'clock to twelve of the morning of the tragedy?" was the first question put to her. "Oi was in the kitchen, an' down to the barn, yer honor." "Were you in the kitchen first." "Sure an' Oi was that." "What were you doing?"

We found Captain Fronte wi' his whole front blow'd out by a shell an' his shoulders kind o' tumbled in where his lungs belonged but thim eyes was lookin' straight at the hilltop. "An' Oi looked in 'em long for Oi loved him an' was glad. 'Cause Oi know'd Captain Fronte McKim was seein' hell an' enjoyin' it."

Are there any other men or women who might remember?" "How kin Oi tell?" snarled the woman impatiently. "Oi can't be bothered." Michael stood in troubled silence and the woman turned her head to watch a neighbor coming down the street with a basket in her hand. It would seem that her visitor interested her no longer.

And, as to your breakfast, bedad Oi forgot it intoirely, but Oi'll send the shteward off, wid ordhers that he's to do nothin' but just wait upon ye and the lady, and make things comfortable for ye." "What the mischief does he want me to do for him?" wondered I. "It must be something of especial moment, or he would never be so extraordinarily civil and obliging!" But I merely answered: "Thanks!

I summon the man to approach us; and the man looks at me stolidly, from the middle of the field, without stirring a step. I ask at the top of my voice how far it is to Farleigh Hall. The Somersetshire peasant answers at the top of his voice: "Vourteen mile. Gi' oi a drap o' zyder."

Did he not know that the very "spittoon" which his judgeship used cost the city the sum of one thousand dollars? As soon as the judge was seated, the court was opened with the "oi yis, oi yis" of the officer in his native language, the case called, and the sheriff was directed to bring in the prisoner.

"That be so, surely," went up in a general chorus, and then a newcomer who had just entered the room said: "Oi ha' joost coom vrom Nance's and Bill Swinton ha' sent in a basin o' soup as he got vrom the feyther o' that boy as broke his leg. Nance war a feeding the child wi' it, and maybe it will do her good. He ha' been moighty koind to Bill, that chap hav."