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The evening passed off most happily. Miss O'Dowd was delighted with her hosts, whose character she resolved to maintain in spite of their reputation for pride and haughtiness.
He still had an hour and a half to wait before he could call up O'Dowd. He strolled across the lot and joined the perspiring comedian. "You seem to have a personal grudge against that carpet," he said, moving back a few yards as Dillingford laid on so manfully that the dust arose in clouds. "Every time I land I say: 'Take that, darn you! And it pleases me to imagine that with every crack Mr.
You see that handsome chap with the blue neck-cloth, and pink shirt, and yellow waistcoat, that's another; that's Molloy Maloney of Ballymaloney, and nephew to Major-General Sir Hector O'Dowd, he, he," Lowton said, trying to imitate the Hibernian accent. "He's always bragging about his uncle; and came into Hall in silver-striped trousers the day he had been presented.
O'Dowd will stay and enlighten you, Emmy," Captain Osborne said; and the two gentlemen, taking each a wing of the Major, walked out with that officer, grinning at each other over his head. And, now having her new friend to herself, the impetuous Mrs. O'Dowd proceeded to pour out such a quantity of information as no poor little woman's memory could ever tax itself to bear.
But, faix, sor, a poor woman as the professor knows is took moighty bad in her inside, some of her neighbours says, an' wants help at onst! "`Who is it, O'Dowd? I asks. `Do you know where she lives? "`Mistress Flannagan's her name, says the porter. `She's Mistress Lancett's ould la'ndress, sor; a cantankerous ould woman, too, an' wid the divvle of a temper!
O'Dowd had an electric pocket torch with which to pick his way back to Green Fancy. "I can't, for the life of me, see why he doesn't put in a driveway straight to the road beyond, instead of roaming all over creation as we have to do," said O'Dowd.
My dear sir, how can you reconcile " He broke off with a gesture of impatience. "I'll admit it's a bit out of reason," said Barnes. "The second man could only have been shot by some one who was lying in wait for him." "Why, the thing's as clear as day," cried O'Dowd, facing the crowd. His cheerful, sprightly face was alive with excitement. "They were not trying to rob any one.
Enough to say that, when for hours each had extended all his pow'rs, toward the quiet evenfall O'Dowd succumbed to young McCall. The champion was a willing lad. He gave the public all he had. His was a genuine fighting soul. He'd lots of speed and much control. No yellow streak did he evince. He tackled apple-pie and mince. This was the motto on his shield "O'Dowds may burst. They never yield."
The agent, seeing me on the platform and evidently at a loss which way to turn, accosted me. He offered to secure a conveyance for me, and was very considerate, but I decided to call up Green Fancy on the telephone. I wanted to be sure that there was no trick. To my surprise, O'Dowd came to the telephone. I was greatly relieved when I actually heard his voice.
Her grasp on Barnes's arm tightened. "Oh, isn't it splendid? They did not catch him. He " "Catch him? Catch who?" cried O'Dowd. "Ah, that is for you to find out, my dear O'Dowd," said Barnes, assuming a satisfaction he did not feel. "Well, I'll be jiggered," came in low, puzzled tones from the rocks outside. "Did you have a a confederate, Barnes? Didn't you do the whole job yourself?"
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