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He went next to Glory McShane, a Market Street acquaintance indebted for certain old favors, and from her, too, learned nothing of moment. He continued the quest in other quarters, and the results were equally discouraging. Then began the real detective work about which, Blake knew, newspaper stories were seldom written.
The snow was many feet deep on the ground; but the air was dry, and the sun shone bright. The bride was handed in, enveloped in a rich mantle of sable; O'Donahue followed, equally protected against the cold; while McShane and Joey fixed themselves on the box, so covered up in robes of wolf-skins, and wrappers of bear-skins for their feet, that you could see but the tips of their noses.
"Well, it appears to me that we had better be off to Exeter directly," replied O'Donahue. "Yes, and see him," rejoined the major. "Before I saw him, McShane, I would call upon the lawyer who defended him, and tell him what you know about the father, and what our suspicions, I may say, convictions, are. He would then tell us how to proceed, so as to procure his pardon, perhaps."
Joey leapt down, and put his pistol to the animal's head, and blew out his brains, while McShane, who had followed our hero, with the other pistol disabled the only wolf that remained.
The gentlemen rose when she came in; she immediately recognised McShane, and the sudden rush into her memory of what might be the issue of the meeting, was so overwhelming, that she dropped into a chair and fainted. Mary ran for some water, and while she did so, McShane and O'Donahue went to the assistance of Mrs Austin.
"Well, that bothers me entirely," said McShane; "an empty bottle is as good to them as a charged gun." "But look, sir, they are coming on again," said Joey, "and faster than ever. I suppose they were satisfied that there was nothing in it." The courier mounted again to the box where Joey and McShane were standing.
"You're in a bad way, O'Donahue; your heart's gone and your money too. Upon my soul, I pity you; but it's always the case in this world. When I was a boy, the best and ripest fruit was always on the top of the wall, and out of my reach. Shall I call to-morrow, and then, if you please, I'll introduce you to Mrs McShane?"
O'Donahue wished him to remain with him, but McShane opposed it. "I tell you, O'Donahue, that it's no kindness to keep him here; the boy is too good to be a page at a lady's shoestring, or even a servant to so great a man as you are yourself now: besides, how will he like being buried here in a foreign country, and never go back to old England?" "But what will he do better in England, McShane?"
"But he admires the government and the laws," said McShane; "and you may add, my good fellow the army and the navy by the powers, he's all admiration, all over! you may take my word for it." "Well, I will do so; but then there is one other question to reply to, which is, why did he come here? what is his business?"
"Prove that you will do better for him, McShane, and he is yours: but without you do, I am too partial to him to like to part with him. His conduct on the journey " "Yes, exactly, his conduct on the journey, when the wolves would have shared us out between them, is one great reason for my objection. He is too good for a menial, and that's the fact.
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