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Updated: June 6, 2025
The man had spoken of Ailleen; he had claimed the robbery from Leary's hut; he had boasted how he had stolen the child from its mother and left it at Taylor's Flat and Nuggan had told him to ask next time he was at the Flat who Mrs. Garry was and what she could tell.
The hate the man had shown him; the story of that ghastly revenge; the message he had scoffingly told him to take to his mother, all returned to him in a moment, blended, as it were, with the hints Nuggan had thrown out, and the suspicion that had often been in his own mind.
Give us what Nuggan said." The remainder of the expectant townsmen repeated the request loudly, volubly, and picturesquely. "Well, it's like this," Cullen at last went on. "Nuggan told me as man to man, and now I tell you as man to man, too, and that's square." "Oh, that's square," Marmot chimed in; and the others repeated the formula.
"Well, you see, there's something that shouldn't be but is somehow about Tony which no one quite knows what it is though they knows it shouldn't be, and that's what Nuggan said," Cullen observed fluently but obscurely. "But what's that?" Marmot began as Cullen paused. He held up his hand, with his pipe between the finger and thumb, impressively, and Marmot stopped.
"And Sam Nuggan, he don't go after for to say that.
The story that Tony had heard from the dying Barber, and which he had re-told at the Flat, was known to every one; Nuggan, anxious to cover his retreat from an awkward position, being assiduous in spreading it.
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