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Sadi also made a movement, apparently for the same purpose. But Pether waved them both back. He slipped a hand into his breast-pocket, and brought out the little mahogany case. "Here it is, Señor Taltavull. You'll share the contents with your two friends?" "Yes," exclaimed the old man, stretching out his bony hands; "I have promised." "Then there you are, Señor Taltavull," said the other quietly.
Pether was not able to look on; he could only listen. As day was beginning to gray the sky the entrance tunnel was unroofed, and down the two foreigners dropped into it, Sadi leading. The man of the soil feared ghosts and crouched at the lip of the hole. Also, being ignorant of all other tongues save Minorquin, he understood no word of what was being said beneath him.
Sure, he thinks we wor tooth an' nail at the meadow all day; an' me thought I'd never recover it, to see Pether here the rise he tuck out of him! Ha, ha, ha och, och, murdher, oh!" "Faith," exclaimed Connor, "'twas good, you see, to help the poor scholar; only for it we couldn't get shkamin' the half-crown out of him.
"'Come, Peter, said he, more calmly, 'reach the kettle from the hob, and we'll let the jade go. Perhaps she's out of her head, poor thing! and will forget all about what she says to-night by to-morrow morning. What are you grinning at there? "'Do you remimber the coult ye won from me whin I bet that ye couldn't light your pipe wid the sun? "'Yis, Pether.
"Then," said Bridget, with decision, "I've thought all round it twict an' my mind's been made to stay; we'll buy a home." She made a hollow of her two hands and called, "Whist whist there, all o' yez! Pether an' Pancho Michael Susan do ye hear!" And when she had them rounded up, she counted them twice to make sure they were all present. "Now ye listen."
"'Oh, I'm practisin', says he, back again, 'go to bed; I'm practisin' for the church, an' the Station that's to be in Pether Rafferty's to-day. "Now, Dinny, between you an' me, that dhrame didn't come for nothin'. So give the gorsoon his way, an' if he chooses to be a gintleman, why let him; he'll be the more honor to thim that reared him."
"Oh, never, never but let me go, an' me go full o' tickles! Oh, Pether, avourneen, don't, you'll hurt me, an' the way I'm in quit, avillish!" "Bedad, if you don't let my head alone, I'll will ever you?" "Never, never. There now ha, ha, ha! oh, but I'm as wake as wather wid what I laughed. Well now, Pether, didn't I manage bravely didn't I?"
"Barney," said the brother of the bridegroom, "you may thank God that Pether is going to be married to your sisther to-morrow as you say, or we'd larn you another lesson eh, masther? That's the chat too ha! ha! ha! To the divil wid sich impedence!"
Betther! faix, four hundhre from him is worth three times as much from another." "Glory to you, Ellish! bright an' cute for ever! Why, I'd back you for a woman' that could buy an' sell Europe, aginst the world. Now, isn't it odd that I never think of these long-headed skames?" "Ay do you, often enough, Pether; but you keep them to yourself, abouchal."
Peter was astonished when he saw the car unloaded, and the crockery piled in proud array by Ellish's own hands. "I knew," said she, "I'd take a start out o' you. Faix, Pether, you'll see how I'll do, never fear, wid the help o' Heaven! I'll be off to the market in the mornin', plase God, where I'll sell rings around me * o' them crocks and pitchers.
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