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"Only a cool hand could carry out such a robbery single-handed," Hewitt answered. "I expect his tools were in the bag that Leamy carried, as well as the jewels. They must have been a small and neat set." They were.
Glory be, I have ut still! though for how long or me own head, for that matter in this state of besiegement, I can not say." "Now," said Hewitt, "I want a full, true, and particular account of yourself and your doings for the last week. First, your name?" "Leamy's my name, sor Michael Leamy." "Lately from Ireland?"
Hollams, finally satisfied that very morning that Leamy certainly had not the jewel, either on his person or at his lodging, and knowing, from having so closely watched him, that he had been nowhere where it could be disposed of, concluded that Wilks was cheating him, and attempted to extort the ruby from him by the aid of another ruffian and a pistol. The rest of my way was plain.
The most daring of Hollams' attacks on Leamy was doubtless the attempted maiming or killing at the railway station, so as to be able, in the character of a medical man, to search his pockets. He was probably desperate at the time, having, I have no doubt, been following Leamy about all day at the Crystal Palace without finding an opportunity to get at his pockets.
These "Irish Fairy Tales" were written, and printed on Irish paper, and published through an Irish publisher Leamy would not bring out a book in any other way before the Celtic renaissance had arrived. This is one of the facts which make them interesting.
Often when he returned in the evening full of his day's observations one wished there had been a shorthand-writer present to take down what fell from his lips. And just as it fell it would have been literature. He was urged to write these things. But Leamy had not readily the will or the power to compel his spirit when the favoured moment had passed.
"Just call to mind, now, the face of the man who tried to put powder in your drink, and that of the doctor who attended to you in the railway station. Were they at all alike, or was either like anybody you have seen before?" Leamy puckered his forehead and thought. "Faith," he said presently, "they were a bit alike, though one had a beard an' the udther whiskers only."
Hollams obviously took Leamy for a criminal friend of Wilks', because of his use of the thieves' expressions 'sparks' and 'regulars, and suggested, in terms which Leamy misunderstood, that he should sell any plunder he might obtain to himself, Hollams.
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