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But we were never such thieves and marauders, caterans bloody and unashamed, as the Galloway kerns and the Northmen, and in all my time we had plenty to do to fend our straths against reivers and cattle-drovers from the bad clans round about us. We lift no cattle in all Campbell country.
"Sorry, but I must insist on holding you," replied Gatewood, laughing. "You're going to your doom. Come on! I'll see you as far as the cab door." They walked out, and Kerns gave the cabby the street and number and entered the hansom. "Now," said Gatewood, "you're in for it! You're done for! You can't help yourself!
"So you really expect that your friend, Mr. Keen, is going to marry me to somebody, nolens volens?" asked Kerns. "I do. That's what I dream of, Tommy." "My poor friend, dream on!" "I am. Tommy, you're lost! I mean you're as good as married now!" "You think so?" "I know it!
I was in school at Farmington; she left school to marry a mere child of eighteen, undeveloped for her age, thin, almost scrawny, with pipe-stem arms and neck, red hair, a very sweet, full-lipped mouth, and gray eyes that were too big for her face." "Well," said Gatewood with a short laugh, "what about it? You don't think Kerns fell in love with an insect of that genus, do you?"
And now they would come into port together and anchor somewhere east of Fifth Avenue which, Kerns reflected, was far more proper a place for Gatewood than somewhere east of Suez, where young men so often sail. And yet, and yet there was something melancholy in the pleasure he experienced. Gatewood was practically lost to him. He knew what might be expected from engaged men and newly married men.
The king's sessions are being kept in five shires more than formerly." Not only were the Englishmen of the Pale at Henry's feet but the kerns of Wicklow and Wexford sent in their submission; and for the first time in men's memory an English army appeared in Munster and reduced the south to obedience.
The castle was of great strength, and the town had been walled by the Lords of the Marches. That such a place should have been carried by Welsh kerns seemed well-nigh incredible, and the execution of the whole of the garrison aroused the most lively indignation.
Kerns that I am flattered," he replied morosely; "and tell Henry I want him." "'Enry, sir? Yes, sir." The servant left; one of the sleek club valets came in, softly sidling. "Henry!" "Sir?" "I'll wear a white waistcoat, if you don't object." The valet laid out half a dozen. "Which one do you usually wear when I'm away, Henry? Which is your favorite?" "Sir?"
Gatewood replied rather vacantly: "Oh, yes; I'm dining here. Good-by, Tommy." Kerns glanced at his watch, lingering. "Was there anything you wished to ask me, Jack?" he inquired guilelessly. "Ask you? No, I don't think so." "Oh; I had an idea you might care to know where Keen & Co. were to be found." "That," said Gatewood firmly, "is foolish."
His own happiness may have been the motive power which had set him in action in behalf of his friend that and a certain indefinable desire to practice a species of heavenly revenge, of grateful retaliation upon the prime mover and collaborateur, if not the sole author, of his own wedded bliss. Kerns had made him happy.
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