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The priest threatened him with boycotting, his friends urged him to give way, and let the police get their 'prog' from a distance, but O'Mara, who was an easy-going man, and who had never obtruded his politics on anyone, showed an unexpected obstinacy, and said he would do as he chose, spite of all the priests on earth.
She badgered him on the way back up the hill that morning, but when they paused for a moment at the edge of the close-cropped lawn which rolled back to the stucco and timber house facing the river, she abandoned her facetiousness. "Why should there be any any element of personal danger in this work you are doing, Mr. O'Mara?" she asked. "And did I do wrong in mentioning to Mr.
O'Mara's reason for establishing his headquarters at Thirty-Mile, instead of directing the work from Morrison, which would seem to be far more convenient." Barbara bobbed her head, meekly. Her giggle, however, was shameless. "But Mr. O'Mara has been trying to tell you," she defended in a suffocated small voice, "that it's because the work at this end is not so difficult.
Captain N was far the stronger of the two; but, on the other hand, O'Mara possessed far more skill in the use of the fatal weapon which they employed. But the narrowness of the room rendered this advantage hardly available. Almost instantly O'Mara received a slight wound upon the forehead, which, though little more than a scratch, bled so fast as to obstruct his sight considerably.
"It was dense enough of me not to have known instantly who it must be, the first day you began your endless reiteration of 'my man, O'Mara. I, at least, should have known, because because" she faltered a little "well, they always do, in books!"
Indeed this matter is full of mystery, for, revenge alone excepted, which I believe, in such minds as Dwyer's, seldom overcomes the sense of interest, the only intelligible motive which could have prompted him to such an act was the hope that since he had, through young O'Mara's interest, procured from the colonel a lease of a small farm upon the terms which he had originally stipulated, he might prosecute his plan touching the property of Martin Heathcote, rendering his daughter's hand free by the removal of young O'Mara.
He told me that he didn't care for it particularly himself, but it was the only one he could find. You can't guess, but you are permitted to try." And he gasped when she threw back her head and burst into her gurgling, throaty laugh. "'What is home without a father?" she sing-songed. And when they were both sober-faced again she added: "I want to know him, please! Can't I meet him, Mr. O'Mara?"
He liked this quiet woman, in her simple black merino gown, linen collar and cuffs, and neatly braided hair. There was an air of refinement and gentle self-control about her, which pleased the doctor. "Mrs. O'Mara," he said; "she must weep, and she must sleep."
And always one will hear different details, but always one accord of verdict. They will tell you that no man ever went through worse vengeance and stayed a living man. For like a blast of wrath O'Mara lifted and struck him.
Yet whenever his eyes strayed toward Miriam and that other figure whom a week or two before he had designated as "my man, O'Mara," his jovialty faltered a little, his manner grew restive. After a time he, too, detached himself and sauntered in the direction of that wholly preoccupied pair. "See here, my lady," he accosted the girl, who turned extremely bright eyes upon his approach.
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