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"Oi wuz standing on th' fire-escape, sorr," said Officer Donahue, in a tone of obsequious respect which not only delighted, but astounded Archie, who hadn't known he could talk like that, "accordin' to instructions, when I heard a suspicious noise. I crope in, sorr, and found this duck found the accused, sorr in front of the mirror, examinin' himself.
"It is some of those mutinous rascals carrying on their games, I I know! Just look, will ye, bosun?" "There ar'n't a sowl thare, I tell ye, sorr," protested Tim, rather a bit vexed at his word being doubted, as he turned to go forward where the row was still going on.
"Aye, aye, thrue for ye, cap'en," answered Tim, and although, of course, I couldn't see him, I'm sure he must have winked when he spoke, there was a tone of such rich jocularity in his voice; "but, sure, sor this is the chap as brought himsilf aboard. He's the stowaway, sorr; Joe Fergusson, by the same token!" "Humph!" grunted Captain Gillespie, astounded by this information.
Did you iver have onendin' devilmint an' nothin' to pay for it in your life, sorr? 'Never, without having to pay, I said. 'That's thrue! 'Tis mane whin you considher on ut; but ut's the same wid horse or fut. A headache if you dhrink, an' a belly-ache if you eat too much, an' a heart-ache to kape all down. Faith, the beast only gets the colic, an' he's the lucky man.
Below there all hands on deck to warp out of dock!" "Be jabers, that'll fetch 'em, sorr," cried Tim with a huge grin, much relishing this summoning of the laggards to work. "Sure, yer honour, ye're the bhoy to make 'em show a leg when ye wants to, an' no misthake at all, at all!" "Aye, and I want them now," rejoined the other with emphasis.
The next I made my choice, at least until I could discover the exact situation for myself. "Come," I said soberly. I closed the door, and faced the trooper. "You remain here with the lady. Don't leave her for a moment except as I order. Keep your revolver drawn, and your eyes on that door. Do you understand?" "Oi do, sorr." "She will explain what you are to guard against.
Archie had long since ceased to regard J. B. Wheeler as anything but a tumour on the social system, but he was bound to admit that he had certainly done him a good turn now. Already these honest men, diverted by the superior attraction of this latest happening, appeared to have forgotten his existence. "Sorr!" said Officer Donahue. "Well?" "It came from upstairs, sorr."
They say they're holdin' up the city edition for the news, sorr." "Very good. Tell them Chief Leverage says the story is worth waiting for." The coroner a short, thick-set man entered and heard the story from Leverage's lips. He made a cursory examination and nodded to Carroll. "Inquest in the morning, Mr. Carroll. Meanwhile, I reckon you want to let them newspapermen in."
'Sorra much, yer honor, sez I. 'It's very strange, you know, sez he, 'that they don't bite at all to-day. You haven't caught any, have you? 'Well, sorr, sez I, 'I did dhrop on a few little ones as I come down. 'Oh, did you, really? sez another one, puttin' a glass in his eye and standin' up excited like. 'Why, my good man, sez he, 'be good enough to 'old them up, you know.
When I had explained my arrangement with Antoine he still lingered. "Tony's against the wife and me," he said mournfully. "It's the war, sorr, and she and me that lile, sorr, the American flag floats from the garage every day. And if a heart can be lile, Elsie's as true to America as though she was born in Boston State-house." "I believe you, Flynn," I said, touched by his earnestness.
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