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When the door swung in and the three were escorted into his presence Sergeant Flannagan gave a snort of disgust, indicative probably not only of despair; but in a manner registering his private opinion of the mental horse power and efficiency of the Kansas City sleuths, for of the three one was a pasty-faced, chestless youth, even then under the influence of cocaine, another was an old, bewhiskered hobo, while the third was unquestionably a Chinaman.
As each man passed him Flannagan scrutinized his face, and it was not until they had all emerged and he had reentered the room with a light that he discovered that once again his quarry had eluded him. Detective Sergeant Flannagan was peeved. The sun smote down upon a dusty road. A heat-haze lay upon the arid land that stretched away upon either hand toward gray-brown hills.
Flannagan had ceased his efforts to break down the door, and was endeavoring to persuade Billy that he might as well come out quietly and submit to arrest. Byrne had drawn his revolver again. Now he motioned to Bridge to come to his side. "Follow me," he whispered. "Don't move 'til I move then move sudden."
I ain't down here after you this trip. Where you been, anyway, that you don't know the war's over? Why Coke Sheehan confessed a month ago that it was him that croaked Schneider, and the governor pardoned you about ten days ago." "You stringin' me?" asked Billy, a vicious glint in his eyes. "On the level," Flannagan assured him.
'It goes like this, says Slavin. 'A-ah, din yadden, yooden a-yadden, arrah yadden ay-a. 'I dinnaw it, says th' girl. ''Tis a low chune, annyhow, says Mrs. Donahue. 'Misther Slavin ividintly thinks he's at a polis picnic, she says. 'I'll have no come-all-ye's in this house, she says. 'Molly, give us a few ba-ars fr'm Wagner. 'What Wagner's that? says Flannagan.
"Did the officer you met on your return from Tempest Lodge follow you to Shelby?" "I have not seen him." "That is bad. He followed Oliver." "It was to be expected." "Oliver is in Canada?" "Undoubtedly." "Which means " "Delay, then extradition. It's that fellow Flannagan who has brought this upon us. The wretch knows something which forbids us to hope." "Alas, yes."
My book contains already many instances of lofty courage and patient endurance as shown by boys. I will add one or two incidents worthy of record. In one of the companies of the Third Lee Battalion was a bright Irish boy named Flannagan, who had been brought to Virginia by one of the officers as his attendant.
The priest had just got through two or three words of Latin, when the dog gives him a pluck by the sleeve; Father Flannagan, of coorse, turned round to see who it was that nudged him: 'Behave yourself, says the dog to him, just as he peeped over his shoulder -'behave yourself, says he; and with that he sat him down on his hunkers beside the priest, and pulling a cigar instead of a pipe out of his pocket, he put it in his mouth, and began to smoke for the bare life of him.
"'You had better behave yourself, I say again, says the dog, 'or if you make me speak, by my honor as a gintleman I'll expose you: I say you won't marry the same two, neither this nor any other day, and I'll give you my raisons presently; but I repate it, Father Flannagan, if you compel me to speak, I'll make you look nine ways at once.
Flannagan saw the tent, platform, and benches put up, and in the early evening he went inland to the village and didn't come back for some hours. It was a moonlight night, and the show people were still getting ready for the next day. I was at the deck-cabin window, smoking an evening pipe, looking at the tent that stood on the sandy piece of land beyond the pier.
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