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He stood there, a blackguard on the face of him, but a gentleman in spite of that undefinable and vaguely repulsive smirk which played about his straight and refined mouth. He slunk away into the night. As O'Hagan walked the night deepened in throbs of gathering darkness.
"O'Hagan at the last made a clean breast of everything. He had to. I came West to make him." "At the last? What does that mean?" "When a man won't talk you have to make him even if you fix him so that he can never talk again." "Is O'Hagan dead?" "He had his choice. But he had to talk. If I had let him off afterward I couldn't have gotten away with the information.
Every office is open to them on the judicial bench. There have been Roman Catholic Lord Chancellors, and Lord Chief Justices. O'Laughlin, O'Hagan, Naish, Pallas, Barry, O'Brien, Keogh, and many others are all Roman Catholic judges. The Papists have an overwhelming preponderance in Parliamentary representation.
A quintessence and distillation of peace and comradeship seemed to inhabit the soft gloam of its chancel. He found himself drifting back to past days and seeing dimly in a thin white cloud faces that seemed familiar and yet were unnameable. Then one face stood out distinctly, and O'Hagan watched it with breathless wonder and fascination.
Remember that on the 15th of next January you and I'll be square at last with law and order and oppression. Good luck to you!" When O'Hagan had gone Blizzard moved his chair so that it faced the door of the junk-closet. And he smiled occasionally as if he were one of an audience at some diverting play. From time to time he took a drink of whiskey and licked his lips.
And now, in the still intervals, the heavy thud of unhurried feet could be heard upon the staircase. O'Hagan was coming to answer; and taking his time about it.
"Do you mean," she asked, a bit breathlessly, "that you have done none of these things of your own will because you wanted to? I mean the placard, and bringing in O'Hagan and his strike breakers, and taking all these ruthless methods to break the strike?... Were you made to APPEAR as though it was you when it wasn't?" "Don't YOU misunderstand me, Miss Frazer. You're on the other side with the men.
Now and again, in the absence of the regular "man," O'Hagan would attend one or another of the tenants in the capacity of substitute valet: as in the present instance, when Maitland, having left his host's roof without troubling even to notify his body-servant that he would not return that night, called upon the janitor to understudy the more trained employee; which O'Hagan could be counted upon to do very acceptably.
O'Hagan paused in the gloom below, his upturned face quaintly illuminated by the flame of a wax taper in his gaslighter. "I'm dining in town to-night, O'Hagan, and dropped around to dress. Is anybody else at home?" "Nivver a wan, sor. Shure, th' house do be quiet's anny tomb " "Then who was that lady, O'Hagan?" "Leddy, sor?" in unbounded amazement. "Yes," impatiently.
"In half an hour, O'Hagan, you may return." "Very good, sor." And the hall door closed. "So," said Maitland, turning to face the man squarely, "you are from Police Headquarters?" "As you see." Mr. Snaith motioned delicately toward his business card as he called it. "Well?" after a moment's pause. "I am a detective, you understand." "Perfectly," Maitland assented, unmoved.
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