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Finally the reason came out. "I'm a college man," he explained proudly. "So was my partner same class. But one can't always remain in the admirable East, and three years ago he and I came here prospecting. Actually struck some pay-dirt in the hills yonder, too, but it sort of petered out on us." "Oh, I'm sorry." Miss Donovan's condolence was genuine. "We lost the ore streak.
When the time came for starting, Mahommed Seti brought round Fielding's horse and also Dicky Donovan's. Now, Mahommed Seti loved a horse as well as a Bagarra Arab, and he had come to love Fielding's waler Bashi-Bazouk as a Farshoot dog loves his master. And Bashi-Bazouk was worthy of Seti's love.
Morrogh, his eldest, was able to bear arms, and shared in his ardour and ambition. "His first effort," says an old Chronicle, "was directed against Donovan's allies, the Danes of Limerick, and he slew Ivar their king, and two of his sons." These conspirators, foreseeing their fate, had retired into the holy isle of Scattery, but Brian slew them between "the horns of the altar."
Adrian remembered that his mate had spoken of it at the time, when by some carelessness, they had not secured the crotched sapling on which they hung their birch kettle. "Oh! you simple thing. Why will you go through life tormenting yourself with such nonsense? Come. Eat your breakfast. We're going straight to Donovan's as fast as we can. I've done with the woods for a time. So should you be done.
First you think that I desire to marry that girl as if it were possible that I should. Then you fear that I will talk business. Am I one that talks business ever, to any one, if I can help it?" "I mean," said Gorman, "don't say anything about buying the island or marrying the girl. Donovan's heart is dicky, or he thinks it is, which comes to the same thing and any sort of worry upsets him."
And to the Washington with its lease forbidding children and pets had come a letter from Mifflin telling of the sudden death of Mrs. Donovan's brother-in-law. Samuel Crocker had been an unsuccessful man, as the world counts success, and had left nothing behind him but his little daughter, Mary Rose. "It's her age that's again' her," thought Mrs. Donovan, when she was alone.
Again they reached a point where two branches met and Pierre explained that the waters of one ran due north, but the other bent gradually toward the south and in a little while descended through one of the most dangerous "rips" he had ever seen. "Only saw them once, too. When I went as far as Donovan's with the master, year before last." "Didn't know he ever came so far from the island."
My flax making part crop. Dams full of water. Fall fallowing begun." In hilarious mood I signed it "Utopia." Delivered the twenty-five miles in the middle of the night, special messenger service prepaid, came the answer: "Atta girl. Am increasing the stakes." He did. Halbert Donovan's company interested other financial concerns in making loans, "to deal out through competent appraisement."
Their rudely built canoe was almost useless when they beached it at last on Donovan's wharf, and their own strength was spent. But it was a hospitable household to which they had come, and one quite used to welcoming wanderers from the forest.
Gorman," he went on, "you get hold of Smith and send him up here to me." I think it was then that Gorman first realized the strength of Donovan's personality. The Queen, though she was in a high passion of patriotism and defiance, left the room without a word. Konrad Karl spluttered a little, uttering a series of ill-assorted oaths, but he walked off the Megalian admiral and put him into a boat.
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