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Every one within reach of their arms went down, and the majority lay quietly where they fell, as the devoted little band pressed slowly forward. With regret Merwyn saw Barney Ghegan among the foremost, his broad red face streaming with perspiration, and he wielding his club as if it were the deadliest of shillalahs. They did indeed strike manfully, and proved what an adequate force could do.
Ghegan, and her story was not so brief as yours." "From what section have you just come?" Mr. Vosburgh asked. Merwyn gave a brief description of the condition of affairs on the west side, ending with an account of the fight at the barricades. "In one respect you are like my other friends, only more so," Marian said. "You are inclined to give me Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
A few yards carried him beyond those who had knowledge of the affair, and after that he was unmolested. It was the policy of the rioters to have the bodies of their friends disappear as soon as possible. Poor Ghegan had been stripped to his shirt and drawers, and so was not recognized as a "cop."
"Where is he?" shrieked the woman. The surgeon, accustomed to similar scenes, nodded to an attendant, and said, gravely, "Show her." Merwyn took the poor woman's hand to restrain as well as to reassure her, saying, with sympathies deeply touched, "Mrs. Ghegan, remember you are not friendless, whatever happens." "Quick! quick!" she said to her guide. "Och! what's a wurld uv frin's if I lose Barney?
I am not defending Merwyn's course, but sketching a character. His spirit of strategical observation would have forsaken him had he witnessed that scene, and indeed it did forsake him as he saw Barney Ghegan running and making a path for himself by the terrific blows of his club. Three times he fell but rose again, with the same indomitable pluck which had won his suit to pretty Sally Maguire.
A woman can never love a man towards whom she has entertained thoughts like hers;" and with much bitter musings, added to his reckless impulses, he made his way to the region in which Mrs. Ghegan had her rooms. Finding a livery stable near he hired a hack, securing it by threats as well as money, and was soon at the door of the tenement he sought. Mrs.
Ghegan showed her scared, yet pretty face in response to his knock. "Ye's brought me bad news," she said, instantly, beginning to sob. "Yes, Mrs. Ghegan; but if you love your husband you will show it now. I have come to take you to him. He has been wounded." "Is it Mr. Merwyn?" "Yes; I've just come from Mr. Vosburgh, and he will do what he can for you when he has a chance.
"Arrah, noo, Barney Ghegan, what liberties wud ye be takin' wid a respectable girl?" and she drew away decidedly. He sprung to his feet and exploded in the words: "Sally Maguire, will ye be me woife? By the holy poker! Answer, yis or no." Sally rose, also, and in equally pronounced tones replied: "Yes, Barney Ghegan, I will, and I'll be a good and faithful one, too.
What I say of Barney I would say of myself and mine, all private considerations must give " "I understand," interrupted Merwyn, impatiently. "But in taking Mrs. Ghegan across town I could see and learn as much as if alone, and she would even be a protection to me. In getting information one will have to use every subterfuge. I think nothing will be lost by this act.
Barney Ghegan eventually recovered, and resumed his duties on the police force. He often said, "Oi'm proud to wear the uniform that Misther Merwyn honored." I have now only to outline the fortunes of Captain Lane and "Missy S'wanee," and then to take leave of my reader, supposing that he has had the patience to accompany me thus far.
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