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Keogh would come there nightly, for Coralio's one cool place was the little seaward porch of that official residence. The brandy would be kept moving; and before midnight sentiment would begin to stir in the heart of the self-exiled consul. Then he would relate to Keogh the story of his ended romance. Each night Keogh would listen patiently to the tale, and be ready with untiring sympathy.
"Johnny never would stick to anything long enough to succeed. I wonder how he manages to run his business here, and never be 'round to look after it." "I'm looking after the business just now," admitted the pro tem. consul. "Are you then, say! where's the factory?" "What factory?" asked Keogh, with a mildly polite interest. "Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs.
Clancy paused. The bright starlight showed a reminiscent look of happy content on his seasoned features. Keogh leaned in his chair and gave his partner a slap on his thinly-clad back that sounded like the crack of the surf on the sands. "Tell 'em, ye divil," he chuckled, "how you got even with the tropical general in the way of agricultural manoeuvrings."
O'Donovan could stand it no longer. He had been reading and speaking for eight hours and a half. With one final protest against the arrangement by which Judge Keogh was sent to try the cases of men who had written and published such articles against him, he sat down, exclaiming that, "English law might now take its course." Next day the jury handed down their verdict of guilty.
"Yes, I'm going to New York," he explained to the group of his countrymen that had gathered on the beach to see him off. "But I'll be back before you miss me. I've undertaken the art education of this piebald country, and I'm not the man to desert it while it's in the early throes of tintypes." With this mysterious declaration of his intentions Keogh boarded the Karlsefin.
"Marry her, and be blowed," said that worthy, sociably; and the driver stiffened and refused to talk further on the subject. Meanwhile the three discussed the matter in low tones. It was practically impossible that anyone could have heard of the identity of Keogh with the missing Considine. How then had the story got about that her husband was dead, and that she had come into money?
General Howard followed the Nez Percés through the mountains, and learning that they had determined to take refuge in the British Possessions he sent a courier to General Miles, at Fort Keogh, who, taking the field at the head of six hundred men, headed off the fugitives at Bear Paw Mountains in Northern Montana, and captured them after a desultory fight lasting through four days.
Keogh, "I believe you have; and that you drank many a good bottle of wine with them before you went to war with America." On the return of Keogh to Dublin, a numerous meeting was held to hear his report. At this meeting, the fair promises of the English ministers were contrasted with the hostility of the Castle.
At the end of a month White announced that the picture was completed Jupiter, Washington, angels, clouds, cannon and all. His face was pale and his mouth drawn straight when he told Keogh. He said the president was much pleased with it. It was to be hung in the National Gallery of Statesmen and Heroes. The artist had been requested to return to Casa Morena on the following day to receive payment.
"Send 'em back home," began Keogh, reading Johnny's thoughts. "I would," said Johnny, after a little silence; "but I've been lying to you, Billy." "All right about that," said Keogh, affably. "I've told you hundreds of times," said Johnny, slowly, "that I had forgotten that girl, haven't I?" "About three hundred and seventy-five," admitted the monument of patience.
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