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Of course, Sweeney will see that I don't get any police officers to carry out my orders, which leaves only the district attorney and the sheriff from whom I can ask assistance. I have been informed that the sheriff is ready and willing to place a number of his deputies at my command and they will probably be the officers who will carry out my orders.
He'll just smile as he recalls what the cavalry did in our last battle. Minstrel man, make yourself at home." Sweeney timidly touched the strings, and Stuart wheeled toward Rives. "Well, Senator, how goes it in Richmond?" Rives answered with eager anxiety. His words were not spoken in despair but with an undertone of desperate appeal. "Dark days have come, General Stuart.
"Our buryin' patch is growin' comfortably rapidly as it is, without adding any marshals to the collection. I've known Pete Sweeney fer quite a spell, and my private advice is to let him alone. There ain't coffins enough this side the river to supply the demand, if you was to try to arrest him when he's feelin' as he's feelin' now."
I wasn't a mere dummy, I was a member of a vast corporation. I had been to a rally and had shaken hands with Sweeney. Ruth's only comment was a disgusted grunt as she smelled the rank tobacco in my clothes. She kept them out on the roof all the next day. This first winter was filled with just about as much interest as it was possible for three people to crowd into six or seven months.
But more distinctive and valuable than these, I think, is a specific use which I have recently had the pleasure of seeing exemplified in great completeness in the schools of Providence, Rhode Island. Some four years ago, the assistant superintendent of schools of that city, Miss Ella L. Sweeney, introduced a rather unusual and extended application of the story in her primary classes.
All this they realised in that first second; then something that was almost fascination drew away their eyes to the man who had done this deed, to the man who, his back to the great door, the only means of egress, was covering them, every soul, with the two great revolvers in his hands. For Pete Sweeney was not drunk now. As swiftly as that horrible thing had been done he had gone sober.
In that room were some of the most callous hearts in the territory. Not one man in a million could have phased them, but this slender girl dumfounded them. Her gaze settled on Buck. His wandered for help to Sweeney, to Jake, to Kite Bonfils. "Now look-a-here, Miss Kate," Sweeney began to explain. But she swept his remonstrance aside. "No No No!"
In England, however, nothing seemed to be thought of it; and I afterwards found that marriages between English women, and men of all the colours of the rainbow, were very common occurrences. When he had given me this ball as the climax of his compliments, Sweeney betrayed the real motive of all his attentions.
If Sweeney couldn't get them what they wanted, he at least sent them away with a feeling of deep obligation to him. Naturally then when election time came around these people obeyed Sweeney's order. It wasn't reasonable to suppose that a campaign speech or two could affect their loyalty. Of course the rival party followed much the same methods but the man in power had a tremendous advantage.
Shevlin never lost an opportunity to express appreciation of what Sweeney had done for him. Tom gave all credit for his athletic ability to Mike Sweeney of Hill and Mike Murphy of Yale.
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