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I would stake my life that you are in the right. Say the word, and I will back you to the end against ten thousand fiends." And after him came tempestuously young Lord Strepp, white on the lips with pure rage. But he spoke with a sudden steadiness. "Colonel Royale, it appears," he said, "thinks he has to protect my friend The O'Ruddy from some wrong of my family or of mine?"
They arrived in your possession, and you cried 'Straw, straw! Did you not?" "'Twas an expedient, O'Ruddy," said the Earl. "There is more than one expedient in the world," said I. "I am now using the expedient of keeping the papers." And in the glance which he gave me I saw that I had been admitted behind a certain barrier.
"At daybreak I shall walk abroad," I replied, "and I have no doubt that Colonel Royale will be good enough to accompany me. I know nothing of Bristol. Any cleared space will serve." My Lord Strepp bowed until he almost knocked his forehead on the floor. "You are most amiable, Mr. O'Ruddy. You of course will give me the name of some friend to whom I can refer minor matters?"
"Damme, O'Ruddy!" said he, puffing; "this can be nought but genuine eagerness." When we came to the duelling-place we found Lord Strepp and Forister pacing to and fro, while the top of a near-by wall was crowded with pleasant-minded spectators. "Aye, you've come, have ye, sirs?" called out the rabble.
"Mollie," said my father, "you know me?" "Ay," said she, "you are The O'Ruddy, and you are a rogue." "True for you, Mollie," said my father pleasantly. "You know it and I know it. I am indeed a grand rogue. But why would you be tearing to tatters the name of that poor girl in Ballygoway?"
Should I say that I was ill, and then send for a doctor to prove that I was not ill? Should I run straightway and hide under the bed? No! "Bid the gentleman enter," said I to the servant. Forister came in smiling, cool and deadly. "Good day to you, Mr. O'Ruddy," he said, showing me his little teeth.
"I would be very much obliged to you for it, Mr. O'Ruddy." With that I called the nearest guard and bade him let nobody up the stair without my knowing it. "I suppose, my lord, you are better acquainted with this house than I am; but I know a spot where there's a drop of good drink." "You have discovered the old gentleman's cellar, then?" "Indeed, Lord Strepp, I have not.
Ah, O'Ruddy, it's men like you that gives the good name to Ireland, and causes her to be looked up to by all the people of the world." I gave Father Donovan heartfelt thanks for his kindness, and prayed to myself that we would not come upon Jem Bottles on the road, and that we would be left unmolested on our journey until we saw the sea-coast.
The stories that have come back to Ireland, O'Ruddy, just made me shiver. I heard that you were fighting and brawling through England, ready to run through any man that looked cross-eyed at you.
"I am glad to see that you are not for the moment consorting with highwaymen and other abandoned characters who might succeed in corrupting your morals, Mr. O'Ruddy. I have decided to kill you, Mr. O'Ruddy. You may have heard that I am the finest swordsman in England, Mr. O'Ruddy?" I replied calmly: "I have heard that you are the finest swordsman in England, Mr.
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