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Vosburgh told Marian of the risks which her new friend was incurring, and the nature of the fighting in which he was engaged, she grew so pale and agitated that he saw that she was becoming conscious of herself, of the new and controlling element entering into her life. This self-knowledge was made tenfold clearer by a brief visit from Mrs. Ghegan. "Oh! how dared you come?" cried Marian.
This is the man whose words, spoken to Sally, disgusted me with my old life. Don't you remember?" Mr. Vosburgh's eyes twinkled, as he shot a swift glance at Sally, whose face was redder than the sunset. The man's chief attraction to the city was apparent. "What's your name?" the gentleman asked. "Barney Ghegan, zur." "Are you perfectly loyal to the North?
Barney doffed his hat and exclaimed, "Long loife to yez all, espacially to the swate-faced young leddy that first spoke a good wourd for me, oi'm a-thinkin';" and he stepped lightly around to the rear of the house. "Sally," said Mr. Vosburgh, with preternatural gravity. The girl courtesied and nearly dropped a dish. "Mr. Barney Ghegan will soon be receiving a large salary."
Then to Sally: "You are right; he is alive, but there was no such pulsation as this when he was brought here. Now be quiet and cheer up, and we may help you save his life. You can stay and take care of him." Merwyn again took the wife's trembling hand and said, earnestly: "Mrs. Ghegan, obey the surgeon's orders exactly. Be quiet, gentle, and self-controlled, and Barney may outlive us all."
Mrs. Ghegan, your old waitress, should be taken to her husband." "What! Barney? What has happened to him?" "I fear he is dead. I disguised myself as you see " "Yes, sensibly. No well-dressed man is safe on some streets." "Certainly not where I've been. I determined to learn the character of the mob, and I have mingled among them all the morning.
"Barney Ghegan is an older acquaintance of mine than of yours, and your pretty waitress has condescended to smile graciously on me more than once, although my frequent presence at your door must have taxed her patience." "You have crossed her palm with too much silver, I fear, to make frowns possible. Silver, indeed! when has any been seen? But money in any form is said to buy woman's smiles."
Leaving him at the hospital, with brief explanations, Merwyn was about to hasten away, when the surgeon remarked, "The man is dead, apparently." "I can't help it," cried Merwyn. "I'll bring his wife as soon as possible. Of course you will do all in your power;" and he started away on a run. A few moments later Barney Ghegan was taken to the dead-house.
Vosburgh and his family were sitting down to dinner, Barney Ghegan, the policeman, appeared at their door with a decent-looking, elderly colored woman and her lame son. They were refugees, or "contrabands," as they were then called, from the South, and they bore a letter from Captain Lane. It was a scrap of paper with the following lines pencilled upon it: "MR. VOSBURGH, No.
Merwyn felt that it would be best to let her paroxysm of grief expend itself unrestrained; but a bitter thought crossed his mind, "I may be in as bad a plight as poor Barney before the day closes, yet no one would grieve for me like that." Suddenly Mrs. Ghegan became still. In her embrace her hand had rested over her husband's heart, and had felt a faint pulsation.
Ghegan reached her husband, and that her good nursing, with surgical help, will probably save his life." Bowing to the agents, who had been listening and watching him with great curiosity, he turned to the door. Marian opened it for him, and, stepping out into the dusky area, said, "I see that you do not forgive me." "And I have seen, to-day, Miss Vosburgh, that you detest me.
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