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He's comin' again." 'She pointed to the veranda, an' by the Hoight av Impart'nince, the Corp'ril man was comin' out av Bragin's quarters. "He's done that these five evenin's past," sez Annie Bragin. "Oh, fwhat will I do!" "He'll not do ut again," sez I, for I was fightin' mad. 'Kape away from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down. He rages like a brute beast.
"We was quartered in a big cantonmint 'tis no manner av use namin' names, for ut might give the barricks disrepitation an' I was the Imperor av the Earth to my own mind, an' wan or tu women thought the same. Small blame to thim. Afther we had lain there a year, Bragin, the Color Sargint av E Comp'ny, wint an' took a wife that was lady's maid to some big lady in the Station.
"'I can't find her, sez the Corp'ril man, an' wint out like the puff av a candle. "'Saints stand betune us an' evil! sez Bragin, crossin' himself; 'that's Flahy av the Tyrone. "'Who was he? I sez, 'for he has given me a dale av fightin' this day.
He had reached Bragin too late. The pretender had already left the place, and was safely lodged in the castle of George Mniszek, the Palatine of Sandomir, to whose daughter Maryna he was betrothed. If these were ill tidings for Boris, there were worse to follow soon.
"You're an ould fool, Mister Bragin," sez I. "You're a young thief," sez he, "an' you've bruk my heart, you an' Annie betune you!" 'Thin he began cryin' like a child as he lay. I was sorry as I had niver been before. 'Tis an awful thing to see a strong man cry. "I'll swear on the Cross!" sez I. "I care for none av your oaths," sez he.
She's dead now is Annie Bragin died in child-bed at Kirpa Tal, or ut may ha' been Almorah seven nine years gone, an' Bragin he married agin. But she was a pretty woman whin Bragin inthrojuced her to cantonmint society.
I had reason fer thinkin' that way till I met Annie Bragin. "Time an' agin whin I was blandandherin' in the dusk a man wud go past me as quiet as a cat. 'That's quare, thinks I, 'for I am, or I should be, the only man in these parts. Now what divilment can Annie be up to? Thin I called myself a blayguard for thinkin' such things; but I thought thim all the same.
"I'm not pleased wid you, Mulvaney," sez Bragin, unbucklin' his sword, for he had been on duty. "That's bad hearin'," I sez, an' I knew that the pickets were dhriven in. "What for, Sargint?" sez I. "Come outside," sez he, "an' I'll show you why." "I'm willin'," I sez; "but my stripes are none so ould that I can afford to loses him. Tell me now, who do I go out wid?" sez I.
"Bragin tould us that Flahy was a Corp'ril who lost his wife av cholera in those quarters three years gone, an' wint mad, an' walked afther they buried him, huntin' for her. "'Well, sez I to Bragin, 'he's been hookin' out av Purgathory to kape company wid Mrs. Bragin ivry evenin' for the last fortnight. You may tell Mrs.
"Is that you, Bragin?" repeated the voice. "I am not Bragin," answered Dick. "Where are you?" "Here." And the unknown repeated the cry until Dick located and joined him. He was a burly lumberman of forty, with a heavy black beard and an equally heavy voice. He gazed at the youth in astonishment. "Hullo! Where did you come from?" he demanded. "From the yacht this lumber raft just struck."
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