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Now I am going to give you something to eat. You look as if you want it badly enough." Gregory looked at Dempsey and made a sign, whereupon the other withdrew, to presently return carrying a bowl of soup. The stranger drank it ravenously, and then lay back and closed his eyes once more.
I tuk him by the scruff av his neck, my heart was hung on a hair-thrigger those days, you will onderstand an' 'Out wid ut, sez I, 'or I'll lave no bone av you unbreakable, 'Speak to Dempsey, sez he howlin'. 'Dempsey which? sez I, 'ye unwashed limb av Satan. 'Av the Bob-tailed Dhragoons, sez he, 'He's seen her home from her aunt's house in the civil lines four times this fortnight, 'Child! sez I, dhroppin' him, 'your tongue's stronger than your body.
"I'll drop in and see Haig to-morrow," he promised. "I have often heard him speak of Professor Dempsey as being one of the best professors of zoology up at the university and I am sure I will be able to find out what you want to know. I hope you have been mistaken in your conclusions, for it would be a horrible blow to a man to lose both his grown sons at once and like that.
"We shall soon find out," Dempsey answered. "All he said when we fished him out of the water was 'at last, and then he fainted clean away. I am not more curious than my neighbours, but I don't mind admitting that I am anxious to hear what he has to say for himself. Talk about Rip Van Winkle, why, he is not in it with this fellow. He could give him points and beat him hollow."
"Among those who were killed in the last great Allied offensive are the names of these brave soldiers. James Browning of Columbus, Ohio No, that isn't what I mean Look, here they are James Dempsey and Arnold Dempsey, Junior. Girls, do you suppose " and she looked at them with widening eyes. "Arnold Dempsey, Arnold Dempsey," repeated Mollie, searching in her memory, but Amy interrupted excitedly.
"I will be marrying Rose Dempsey in the town some days after she lands." "Rose would never like the suddenness of that," her aunt protested. "She can be staying with me and marrying from my house. "I saw the priest about it," Martin Cosgrave said impatiently. "I will have my way, Ellen Miscal. Rose Dempsey will come up to Kilbeg my wife.
"Rose!" he exclaimed while the girl's back was still turned to him. His voice shook in spite of him. The woman turned about sharply. Martin Cosgrave gave a little start back. It was not Rose Dempsey, but her sister, Sheela. How like Rose she had grown! "Martin!" she exclaimed, putting out her hand. He gave it a hurried shake and then searched the railway carriage with burning eyes.
His ideal was now by him and always, and its dominion was so complete that he neglected his duties at the bank, and was censured by the amazed manager. The change of his condition was so obvious that it became the subject for gossip, and jokes were now beginning to pass into serious conjecturing. Dempsey took no notice, and his plans matured amid jokes and theories.
When Ellen Miscal left him, Martin Cosgrave stood very quietly looking through the cut-stone tracery window. The beech trees were swaying slowly outside. Their music was in his ears. Then he remembered that he was standing in the room where he would take Rose Dempsey in his arms. It was here he would tell her of all the bitter things he had locked up in his heart when she had gone away from him.
In ten days, if nothing happened, he would be gone, and she would be left behind to grapple alone with Roger who might at any moment torment her again; with the presence of Dempsey, who was thinking of settling in the village, and for whom she would be called upon very soon to fulfil the hopes she had raised in him; and finally, with the struggle and misery in her own mind.
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