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He couldn't have hit on a happier topic. The two are at their ease at once. "Yes, sir, the junior hundred yards. I say, Cusack, your gov your father's just in time for the final heat. In the first I had a dead heat with Watkins, you know," continues he, addressing the captain. "Watkins was scratch, and I had five yards, and the ruck got ten.
No one knew exactly how he distinguished himself on that occasion, or how he succeeded with his experiments, but it was well-known that, if he had succeeded then, he had never done so since; that is, according to anybody's idea but his own. Cusack and Pilbury found him busy blowing through a tube into a bottle of water, looking very like a purple cherub bursting at the cheeks.
Among the last, looking about anxiously for a place to stand and watch the big race, are Telson and Parson, arm-in- arm. Captain Cusack hails them cheerily. "Well, who won, my boys? who won?" The dejected countenances of the two heroes is answer enough. "Watkins won," says Parson, speaking in a subdued voice. "The fact is, my shoe-lace came undone just when I was putting it on at the end."
"What do you say to going it steady this term?" asked Pilbury. "Depends on what you mean by `steady. If you mean never going out of bounds or using cribs, I'm not game." "Oh, I don't mean that, you know," said Pilbury. "What I mean is, shutting up rows, and that sort of thing." "What can a fellow do?" asked Cusack, dubiously.
Pilbury and Cusack, who at the first alarm had retreated somewhat suddenly to the door, returned as soon as they perceived there was no danger, and were profuse in their praises of the experiment and the experimenter. "Awfully prime, that was!" cried Cusack; "wasn't it, Pil?" "Stunning!" said Pilbury. "Jolly grind that jar bursting up, though," said Philpot, with a troubled countenance.
It was to tell me that the position of Manager of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland had become vacant, and suggested that I should return home by way of Dublin and call upon the chairman of the company, Sir Ralph Cusack, in regard to the succession. Now something had turned up, and Bailey declared I was as good as appointed.
More than one fellow dropped in during the evening to inquire how he was, and to confirm his new reputation. Pilbury and Cusack were among the first. "Is it true your leg's broken?" cried the latter, as he entered the study, in tones of unfeigned concern. "No, of course not," replied the captain, laughing. "What made you think so?" "The fellows said so.
"You, if you like," shouted Pilbury and Cusack. "I'll knock your heads together when I catch you," said Wyndham, with lofty disgust, not intending to put himself out for two juniors. A loud laugh greeted the threat. Meanwhile, fellows were running up every moment.
The wife and children of one Adam Cusack, threw themselves across the path of Wemyss to obtain the pardon of the husband and the father. The crime of Cusack was in having taken arms against the enemy. Their prayers were in vain. But for the interference of his own officers, the ruthless Briton would have ridden over the kneeling innocents.
Catherine Cusack, maid to the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, where she found matters as described by the last witness. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence in the strongest terms.
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