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"Except for your unfortunate investment in the Arizona oil-wells a year ago, it might have been half a million more a loss which your fortunate connection during the past three years as a special partner in the well-known banking-house of Gilroy and Company has more than made up." The Senator sprang excitedly to his feet.
"Not so strange after all," returned Armstrong, "when one reflects that she has been the means of almost changing the character of the town within the last few years as far at least as concerns the condition of soldiers, as well as many of the poorer classes among its inhabitants so Sergeant Gilroy tells me."
He was not greatly shocked at Jim's defection, for he was always fully conscious of his vanity and weakness; but he was by no means certain that Jim's extravagance and braggadocio, which he had found only amusing and, perhaps, even pathetic, might not be as provocative and prejudicial to others as Gilroy had said.
"You understand," said I, "that it is not out of curiosity I ask, but in the hope that I may find some scientific explanation for the facts with which you furnish me." "Frankly, Professor Gilroy," said she, "I am not at all interested in science, nor do I care whether it can or cannot classify these powers." "But I was hoping " "Ah, that is quite another thing.
"I have always been of the same mind." "Let us understand each other, Professor Gilroy," said she slowly. "I am not a very safe person to trifle with, as you should realize by now.
"Gilroy," he answered, mumbling with his swollen lips, "I have for some weeks been under the impression that you are a madman. Now I know it, and that you are a dangerous one as well. If it were not that I am unwilling to make a scandal in the college, you would now be in the hands of the police." "Do you mean " I cried.
Therefore, it is the more pleasant to me to be able to chronicle some of the doings of Captain Gilroy, familiarly known as "Paddy," the master of the CHANCE, who was unsurpassed as a whale-fisher or a seaman by any Yankee that ever sailed from Martha's Vineyard. He was a queer little figure of a man short, tubby, with scanty red hair, and a brogue thick as pea-soup.
Gilroy, however, being as knowing as 'his nevvey, as he called him, just encouraged Facey in his shooting, fishing, and idle propensities generally, doubtless finding it more convenient to have his fish and game for nothing than to pay for them.
Unless Holroyd decided to leave England at once with this young Gilroy of whom Caffyn had spoken a stranger he would certainly learn how he had been tricked with regard to Mabel's marriage, and this would lead him on to the full discovery of his wrongs. In his mad determination to win her at all costs, Mark had disregarded everything but the immediate future.
Tired professional or business men make it constantly, under the pretence that it is the only way they can get "a real holiday." Journalists make it as the only way of getting out of their heads such disgusting topics as Croker and Gilroy, and Hill and Murphy. Rich people make it every year, or oftener, through mere restlessness.
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