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Nivver a bit did Oi drame th' drunk aslape on th' flure av th' hut an' shnorin' away wur yersilf, Misther Merriwell. Aven whin Oi lay chlose to yez an' ye began to untoie me bonds Oi couldn't suspict it was yersilf. Whin Dil Noort showed up Oi knew it meant throuble, an' sure it wur a relafe to feel in me hand th' pistol ye put there.
The trouble's with th' people. They're all dead aslape here, an' there's nobody to wake me up." "Piper Tim! Piper Tim!" was breathed close to his ear. He sprang up, with wide, startled eyes. "Piper Tim," said the little girl gravely, "I've seen them." The man stared at her in a breathless silence.
I will consult my brother, and hear what he advises." "But if there are a whole band of Indians, they may come some night and take our scalps while we are aslape," said Pat, who, though brave as need be when it came to the pinch, held the Indians in especial dread. Shouldering the axe, I called Martin and Robin, who were selecting trees for our proposed hut at some little distance off.
Russell could not make out what he said, nor had she a chance to explain. For in the midst of all this there occurred a new interruption. This was the sound of a key turning in the door. The door opened immediately behind Mrs. Russell, and a soft voice, said in familiar tones and in a husky whisper: "Whis-s-s-s-sht, darlin' are ye awake, thin! Sure I hope the gyerruls are aslape."
A bit of dinner in the back room waited, for Jerry believed in keeping well in with the force. Tim fed heartily, and, in spite of dust, heat, and the chatter of the children, dozed, to wake with a start. "Me sowl to glory! It's aslape I've bin! Let's hav' a look at the little fella and be off."
Emmeline held up her doll to see ITS shadow, and Mr Button held up his pipe. "Come now," said he, putting the pipe back in his mouth, and making to rise, "and shadda off to bed; it's time you were aslape, the both of you." Dick began to yowl. "I don't want to go to bed; I aint tired, Paddy les's stay a little longer."
"Aslape is it! be me conscience an' ye have just. Oh then, may I never indulge in the same sort o' slumber!" "Why so?" asked Fred in some surprise. "You fell asleep on the ice, sir," answered West, while he busied himself in spreading the tarpaulin and blanket-bags on the floor of the hut, "and you were very near frozen to death." "Frozen, musha!
"And worse and worse, he's in my bed! I just 'woke up and thought it was Mr. W by my side But, when I looked over, I saw instead of his face, one as black as the stove. Mercy on me! I was frightened almost to death." "Is he aslape?" asked Kitty. "Yes, sound asleep and snoring. Oh! dear! What shall we do? Where in the world is Mr. W ? I'm afraid this negro has murdered him."
"Is it dhraming I've been?" continued the awakened one. "Where am I at all, at all? O musha! sure, here I am. O wirra! wirra! I dreamt I'd gone aslape on the main-hatch and the ship was blown up with powther, and it's all come true." "What is it, honey?" "Where are we now?" "Sure, we're afloat on the say, acushla; where else would we be?" "Where's uncle?"
His head sank heavily in his hands as his heart grew intolerably sad with the lack he felt in all the world, most of all in himself. He had often tried to tell himself what made the world so dully repellant, but he never could get beyond, "'Tis as though I was aslape an' yet not quite aslape just half wakin', an' somethin' lovely is goin' on in the next room, an' I can't wake up to see what 'tis.
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