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"Now you b'yes, get ahead as fast as you can. Get a move on them durty spalpanes of tamesters. We must get back to camp before this storm strikes us. Shove out, now, as if the divil or Jahn Morgan was after yez." It was awful double-quicking over that rocky, rutty road, but taking Shorty and four others. Si went on the keen jump to arrive hot and breathless on the banks of the creek.
"Call me anything yeou want to." Barney was completely overcome. He realized that Gallup had spoken the truth, and now he understood why his old comrade had appeared so worried and broken up. "Oi don't blame yez for wearing a face a yarrud long, Ephie," he said. "Tell me how it happened, me bhoy." Gallup related the particulars.
Delaney said cheerfully: "Well, good by, b'ys; if I've hurted any of y ez, I hope ye'll forgive me. Shpake up, now, any of yez that I've hurted, and say yell forgive me." We called upon Marion Friend, whose throat Delaney had tried to cut three weeks before while robbing him of forty dollars, to come forward, but Friend was not in a forgiving mood, and refused with an oath.
"Did not my sister Katie work for yez?" he asked, and his words leaped and curled about her like hissing flames. "Did you see after her or watch her comings and goings, as she saw after you she a mere lass of sixteen? Arrah! No!" With a sensation of horror Miss Althea realized that at last she was in a murder case in spite of herself!
"Sit down, gintlemen," said Ned; "sit down, Father Ned, you and Father Pether we'll have another tumbler; and, as it's my turn to tell a story, I'll give yez something, amuse yez, the best I can, and, you all know, who can do more?"
He then drank our healths, and shuck hands with us both a second time, saying although I can't, at all at all, give it in anything like his own words 'I am glad, says he, to Mary's parents, 'that your daughter has made such a good choice; throth he did the Lord be merciful to his sowl God forgive me for what I was going to say, and he a Protestant; but if ever one of yez went to heaven, Mr.
Funny ringin' sort of laugh, full of thot same joy Durade hed sung out to Lee. Hate an' love of blood it wor. Yez would hev thought Neale felt wonderful happy to sthop a bullet. "Thin his hand shot out an' grabbed Durade.... He jerked him off his feet an' swung him round. The little derringer flew, an' Sandy McDermott wuz the mon who picked it up.
"Of course not; or else they'd have come on to examine it. Instead, they've left the beach altogether. They've gone inland, among the hills. They're no longer in sight." "Good!" ejaculated Terence, raising his head over the ridge, as did also the others. "Och! good yez may well say, Masther Terence. Jist look what fools we've been all four av us!
"It's never out av order to praise Misther Stirling." The crowd applauded his sentiment. Peter had had some rough experiences two or three times in his fall campaign, and Dennis, who had insisted on escorting him, took him to task about his "physical culture." "It's thirty pounds yez are too heavy, sir," he told Peter. "An' it's too little intirely yez afther knowin' av hittin'."
"The wire is cut. It wouldn't help matters if it weren't. I thought when I saw your train we might risk sending the engine on alone. But your engine is behind all these loaded cars. No switch. Oh, it is damnable!" "Collins, there's more domnable things than yez ever heerd of.... I'll sthop Gineral Lodge!" The brawny Irishman wheeled and strode back toward the front car of the train.
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