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"I am not authorized," said Von Edelstein, "to reveal secrets of State; but I think I may trust your discretion so far as to say that one very highly placed desires that the Ulster Volunteer Force should be thoroughly equipped for war. It is his wish: " "Baron," said McMunn, "here's a bill drawn on my firm for the price of the rifles.
It would be queer if I didn't, seeing that I've sailed his ships this ten year. Andrew McMunn will go to heaven." "Ah," said Lord Dunseverick, "he's a good man, then?" "I'll no go so far as to say precisely that," said Ginty, "but he's a man who never touches a drop of whisky nor smokes a pipe of tobacco. It'll be very hard on him if he doesna go to heaven after all he's missed in this world.
On the chimney-piece under a glass shade, is a model of The McMunn Brothers, the latest built and largest of the ships. "Good-morning to you, my lord!" said McMunn, without rising from his seat. He nodded towards one of the chairs which stood against the wall. This was his way of inviting his visitor to sit down.
Very well dressed young men, with pale lavender ties and pearl tie-pins Lord Dunseverick had both are not often seen in Belfast quay-side offices. "If you want to see Mr. McMunn," said the clerk, " and I'm no saying you will, mind that you'd better take yon cigarette out of your mouth. There's no smoking allowed here."
They walked together, sometimes side by side, sometimes driven apart by a string of carts. "If it had been Jimmy McMunn you wanted to see," said Ginty, "you might have had further to go. Some says Jimmy's in the one place, and more is of opinion that he's in the other. But I've no doubt in my own mind about where Andrew will go when his time comes." "You know him pretty well, then?" "Ay, I do.
There are three wooden chairs ranged against the wall opposite the writing-table. Four photographs of steamers, cheaply framed, hang above the chairs. They are The Andrew McMunn, The Eliza McMunn, and, a tribute to the deceased Jimmy, The McMunn Brothers. These form the fleet owned by the firm, and carry coal from one port to another, chiefly to Belfast.
The counter-question may draw some valuable matter by way of answer from the original questioner. In this case the counter-question was a reasonable one. McMunn, of McMunn Brothers, Limited, was a coal merchant. Lord Dunseverick, though a peer, belonged to the north of Ireland. He understood Belfast. "What I want," he said, "is to see Mr. Andrew McMunn."
Ginty entered the cabin carrying three tumblers and a corkscrew. The beer was opened and poured out Von Edelstein raised his glass. "To the Ulster Volunteer Force," he said, "and to the day when the pleasant little surprise we have prepared for you may prove a very unpleasant surprise for the enemy." He bowed and drank. "What's in them cases?" said McMunn.
"We think that foreign travel has widened your principles out a bit That's what we think, isn't it, Ginty?" "My principles are what they always were," said McMunn, "but I've some small share of commonsense. I know there's a foreigner coming on board the night, a baron and a dissipated man " "Come, now," said Lord Dunseverick, "you can't be sure that Von Edelstein is dissipated.
"It's a great comfort to be sure of one's men." "I wish I was as sure of every one as I am of Ginty," said McMunn. "I'm no saying that your lordship's not sound. The speech you made last night at Ballymena was good enough, and I'm with you in every word of it; but " "Oh, speeches!" said Lord Dunseverick.
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