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"Yes, Lassiter," cried Shefford. "Look, Fay! Look, Jane! See! Indians hogans mustangs there above the green bank!" The boat glided slowly shoreward. And the deep, hungry, terrible rumble of the remorseless river became something no more to dread.
"We are passing," observed Vanston, "from one to another rather irregularly, I fear; don't you think we had better hear this girl fully in the first place; but, my good girl," he added, "you are to understand that we are not here to investigate any charges against Mr. Hycy Burke, but against the Hogans. You will please then to confine your charges to them."
On passing Gerald Cavanagh's kiln, where the Hogans kennel, I entered, and was greeted wid such a chorus of sternutation as you might expect from a pigsty in midsummer, and made me envy the unlicked young savages who indulged in it. At the period spoken of neither you nor they had come in from the kemp.
Hycy took his seat in the parlor, and began to give a stave of the "Bay of Biscay:" "'Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge pours; The clouds were rent asunder By light'ning's vivid By the way, mother, what are those robbing ruffians, the Hogans, doing at the kitchen door there?" "Troth, whatever they like," she replied.
The Hogans, who seldom missed a Wake, Dance, Cockfight or any other place of amusement or tumult, were not present, we need scarcely assure our readers, at the wake-house of Mrs. M'Mahon.
"Now, my good girl," said Chevydale, "you will state all you know connected with these Hogans fully and truly that is, neither more nor less than the truth."
They did not know that the silent Indian with the dingy overalls and the bobbed hair had watched every movement they made. Through all that hour of rest not even a papoose had been visible around the hogans which, while there was nothing warlike in their keeping under cover, was not exactly a friendly attitude.
On the desk behind him, over which in the course of each month passed a lot of very tainted money, stood a large photograph of Mrs. Hogan, and another of the three little Hogans in ornamented silver frames, and his face would soften tenderly at the sight of their self-conscious faces, even at a moment when he might be relieving a widowed seamstress of her entire savings-bank account.
The dog ran yelping toward the hogans with Pink hard at its heels swinging his loop menacingly.
From Eschtah's encampment westward the hogans diminished in number till only one here and there was discovered, hidden under a yellow wall, or amid a clump of cedars. All the Indians met with were sternly questioned by the chiefs, their dwellings were searched, and the ground about their waterholes was closely examined.
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