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A hundred eyes were now turned upon him in envy and new admiration. Mrs. William Darragh McMahan trembled with ecstasy, so that her diamonds smote the eye almost with pain. And now it was apparent that at many tables there were those who suddenly remembered that they enjoyed Mr. McMahan's acquaintance. He saw smiles and bows about him. He became enveloped in the aura of dizzy greatness.
"Why shouldn't I do it for him for my friend, Fergus McMahan? For him to ask me was a compliment an acknowledgment of his own shortcomings. "'You little, lily white, fine-haired, highly polished piece of dumb sculpture, says I, 'I'll help you.
The officers slain were, Colonel Abraham Owen, Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Captain Jacob Warrick, Captain Spier Spencer, Captain William C. Baen, Lieutenant Richard McMahan, Lieutenant Thomas Berry, Corporal James Mitchell and Corporal Stephen Mars. The loss of the savages in killed alone was nearly forty. The number of their wounded could never be ascertained.
I set my voice to poetry, art, romance, flowers, and moonlight. I repeated some of the verses that I had murmured to her in the dark at her window; and I knew from a sudden soft sparkle in her eye that she recognized in my voice the tones of her midnight mysterious wooer. "Anyhow, I had Fergus McMahan going. Oh, the vocal is the true art no doubt about that. Handsome is as handsome palavers.
"All right," said Billy, "if it's against the rules. I wonder if 'twould do to send my friend Van Duyckink a bottle? No? Well, it'll flow all right at the caffy to-night, just the same. It'll be rubber boots for anybody who comes in there any time up to 2 A. M." Billy McMahan was happy. He had shaken the hand of Cortlandt Van Duyckink.
Now, as Ikey entered, McMahan stood, flushed and triumphant and mighty, the centre of a huzzaing concourse of his lieutenants and constituents. It seems there had been an election; a signal victory had been won; the city had been swept back into line by a resistless besom of ballots. Ikey slunk along the bar and gazed, breath-quickened, at his idol.
Van Duyckink," he said, "I've heard you was talking about starting some reforms among the poor people down in my district. I'm McMahan, you know. Say, now, if that's straight I'll do all I can to help you. And what I says goes in that neck of the woods, don't it? Oh, say, I rather guess it does." Van Duyckink's rather sombre eyes lighted up.
He rose to his lank height and grasped Billy McMahan's hand. "Thank you, Mr. McMahan," he said, in his deep, serious tones. "I have been thinking of doing some work of that sort. I shall be glad of your assistance. It pleases me to have become acquainted with you." Billy walked back to his seat. His shoulder was tingling from the accolade bestowed by royalty.
I had nothing with which to charm her ears. We looked at pictures and she played the guitar occasionally, very badly. When I left, her parting manner seemed cool or at least thoughtful. "This happened for five evenings consecutively. "On the sixth day she ran away with Fergus McMahan. "It was known that they fled in a sailing yacht bound for Belize.
Can any woman want more? asks Fergus McMahan. "'Can she do with less? I ask. 'How can we separate our mutual attractions, and how shall we apportion the proceeds? "Then Fergus tells me his scheme. "The house of the alcalde, Don Luis Zamora, he says, has a patio, of course a kind of inner courtyard opening from the street.
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