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My man sells John Johnes, of Dubuque, and writes: 'He has a grocery well stocked; says stock is worth $3,000, and no debts. His neighbors say he is sound as wheat. But when Dun's report comes in it says: Is a married man. Been in business alone and with partners for several years; means limited and estimated worth $500 to $800.
In times gone by, the Colonel had found a certain national detective- agency an extremely efficient aid to well-known commercial agencies, and to these tried and true subordinates he turned now for explicit and satisfying information anent the Northern California Outrage! The information forthcoming from Dun's and Bradstreet's was vague and unsatisfying.
He looked about in a different way from that in which he had first surveyed the street, now showing life. His gaze encountered the bank building. The door was open. The bank doubtless opened at nine o'clock. He remembered that this was so. A second of indecision, then he moved in front of the bank. He dismounted, flung the reins over the dun's head, and entered briskly.
"I dare say," he admitted lightly. "However, I wasn't, and now I'm going to be punished for it, my dear: so don't roast me any more. By the way, that speckled hot-air fellow Ogilvy, who is promoting the Northern California Oregon Railroad, is back in town again. Somehow, I haven't much confidence in that fellow. I think I'll wire the San Francisco office to look him up in Dun's and Bradstreet's.
Myles Keogh, who, in company with others, acted so bravely in rescuing the wounded, tells of the actual incident of the surrender of De Valera, near Ringsend. Dr. Keogh was on Sunday returning at one o'clock from Glasnevin Cemetery on a hearse, which, under the Red Cross, had left a number of dead for burial, and when opposite Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital a voice hailed him.
Ah! here comes his own horse, the big black stallion from Gudbrandsdal. This beast's trot is a different thing from the poor dun's the sleigh flies up to the door. And in a moment Peer is sitting in it again in his furs. Ah! what a relief to have a fresh horse, and one that makes light of the load behind him. Away he goes at a brisk trot, with lifted head and bells jingling, over the frozen lakes.
It never seems to have occurred to him that the last was as efficacious a mode of silencing a dun's complaint as keeping out of his way; while it was infinitely preferable to the creditor.
They looked him up in Dun's and found that he was in the grocery business. My father didn't wish to go out the town was in his territory. I overheard the old man in the office say to him: 'Let's send Chim. "Well, Jim started that night. They told me to take a sleeper, but I sat up all night to save the two dollars.
Finlay Dun's book, from which I have previously quoted, I condense the following from the chapter he devoted to the estates for which I was agent. He observes that in 1881 my firm had the supervision of eighty-eight estates, upwards of three thousand farming tenants, and annually collected rents to the value of a quarter of a million sterling. From the particulars I furnished him he deduces:
It leads to eugenics rather than to esthetic. Then MacCann is a sulphur-yellow liar, said Lynch energetically. There remains another way out, said Stephen, laughing. To wit? said Lynch. This hypothesis, Stephen began. A long dray laden with old iron came round the corner of Sir Patrick Dun's hospital covering the end of Stephen's speech with the harsh roar of jangled and rattling metal.
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