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"You'll be wanting a bite to eat," said Mrs. Birnie. "It's little I have to set for you. The wee bit of meat we had I cooked for him to take with him. It's no much Jinny and I will be wanting while he's awa from us. Ay, and it's no much Jinny and I will get if he doesna come back to us." "Where has he gone?" said Neal.
All present were armed with pistols and cutlasses except Morton, who suffered the weapons presented to him to lie unheeded on the table. "Courage, mes amis!" said Gawtrey, closing his book, "Courage! a few months more, and we shall have made enough to retire upon, and enjoy ourselves for the rest of the days. Where is Birnie?" "Did he not tell you?" said one of the artisans, looking up.
"Every man for himself. Besides, Mr. Love was dancing," replied Mr. Birnie, with a dull glance of disdain. "Philosophy," muttered Gawtrey, thrusting his dresscoat into his trunk; then, suddenly changing his voice, "Ha! ha! it was a very good joke after all own I did it well. Ecod! if he had not given me that look, I think I should have turned the tables on him.
Gawtrey, raising his voice so as to be heard by the party, "that a coiner so dexterous as Monsieur Giraumont should not be known to any of us except our friend Birnie." "Not at all," replied Giraumont; "I worked only with Bouchard and two others since sent to the galleys. We were but a small fraternity everything has its commencement." "C'est juste: buvez, donc, cher ami!" The wine circulated.
At last he lifted his eyes to Philip, and replied: "Well, then, if it must be. Sooner or later it must have been so; and I want a confidant. You are bold, and will not shrink. You desire to know my occupation will you witness it to-night?" "I am prepared: to-night!" Here a step was heard on the stairs a knock at the door and Birnie entered.
When we left Bendigo, Bez, Birnie, Dan, Scott, and Moses were of the party, and a one-horse cart carried our baggage. When we came to a swamp we carried the baggage over it on our backs, and then helped the horse to draw the empty cart along. Our party increased in number by the way, especially after we met with a dray carrying kegs of rum.
The country round Kouka is uninteresting and flat, thickly covered with acacias. The ruins of old Birnie, which they visited, convinced them of the power of its former sultan. The city, though now in ruins, covered a space of five or six square miles. The walls, in many places standing, consisted of large masses of red brickwork, three or four feet in thickness, and six to eight in height.
At last he lifted his eyes to Philip, and replied: "Well, then, if it must be. Sooner or later it must have been so; and I want a confidant. You are bold, and will not shrink. You desire to know my occupation will you witness it to-night?" "I am prepared: to-night!" Here a step was heard on the stairs a knock at the door and Birnie entered.
"For Tours?" repeated Morton. "Yes, there are some English there; one can live wherever there are English," said Gawtrey. "Hum!" grunted Birnie, drily, and, buttoning up his coat, he walked slowly away.
At the same instant Gawtrey sprang upon the table, his black frown singling out from the group the ashen, cadaverous face of the shrinking traitor. Birnie had darted from the table he was half-way towards the sliding door his face, turned over his shoulder, met the eyes of the chief. "Devil!" shouted Gawtrey, in his terrible voice, which the echoes of the vault gave back from side to side.
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