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"You've offered an outrageous insult to loyal men," said McMunn. "A mistake," said Von Edelstein, "but surely excusable. I have in my pocket at the present moment would you be so kind as to feel in my breast pocket? You'll find some papers there, and a newspaper cutting among them." Lord Dunseverick slipped his hand into the prisoner's pocket.
"Teetotaller?" he said. "I dare say you're right, though I take a whisky-and-soda myself when I get the chance." "You'll no get it here," said McMunn; "and what's more, you'll no' get it on any ship owned by me." "Thank you. It's as well to understand before-hand." "I'm a believer in speaking plain," said McMunn. "There's ay less chance of trouble afterwards if a man speaks plain at the start.
Lord Dunseverick took his cigarette out of his mouth, but he did not throw it away. He held it between his fingers. "Just tell Mr. McMunn," he said, "that Lord Dunseverick is here." The clerk's manner altered suddenly. He drew himself up, squared his shoulders, and saluted.
No more than a low murmur of approval greeted Lord Dunseverick's words; but the men looked as if they wished to cheer vehemently. The red-haired boy tapped at the door which was marked "Private." A minute later he invited Lord Dunseverick to pass through it. Andrew McMunn is a hard-faced, grizzled little man, with keen blue eyes. He can, when he chooses, talk excellent English.
"Oh, you're coming too?" "I am. Have you any objection?" "None whatever. I'm delighted. We'll have a jolly time." "I'll have you remember," said McMunn, "that it's not pleasuring we're out for." "It's serious business. Smuggling rifles in the teeth of a Royal Proclamation is " "When I understand," said McMunn, "and you understand, where's the use of saying what we're going for?
You've never met him." "He's a foreigner and a baron," said McMunn, "and that's enough for me, forbye that he's coming here under very suspicious circumstances. If I can get the better of him by means of strong drink and the snare of alcoholic liquors " "Good Lord!" said Lord Dunseverick.
"I've been in business for thirty years, and it's the first time I ever had goods given me that I didn't ask for." "Well," said Lord Dunseverick, "if we've got an extra five hundred rifles we can't complain. There's plenty of men in Ulster ready to use them." "Maybe you'll tell me," said McMunn, "why they wouldn't let me pay for the goods in the office this afternoon.
"I came to settle the details about this expedition to Hamburg," said Lord Dunseverick. "Well," said McMunn, "there's no that much left to settle. The Brothers is ready." "The Brothers?" "The McMunn Brothers. Thon's the model of her on the chimneypiece." Lord Dunseverick looked at the model attentively. It represented a very unattractive ship.
It's the way I've always acted, and it's no a bad way." "Gosh," said Ginty, "there's somebody coming aboard of us now. The look-out man's hailing him." He left the cabin as he spoke. A few minutes later Ginty entered the cabin again. He was followed by a tall man, so tall that he could not stand quite upright in the little cabin. "It's the baron," said Ginty. "Guten Abend," said McMunn.
Von Edelstein bowed, and sat down. "Ginty," said McMunn, "get some tumblers. And now Baron " "Captain," said Von Edelstein. "Well get to business. What's in them twenty-two cases that was dumped into our hold today?" "Ah," said Von Edelstein, smiling. "A little surprise. I hope, I feel confident, a pleasant surprise, for my comrades of the Ulster Volunteer Force."
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