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Then he saw that Danny O'Flannigan jerked himself to his feet and strode away, leaving Handy Mike stolidly smoking on the side porch. "Humph!" muttered Bob. "Danny hung to longer 'n I thought he would. Must be somethin' special's up." It was on the next night that Jim, from his perch on the back fence, saw the checkered trousers and tall hat on his own doorstep.
When this morning arriv', I struck signs agin, and at last found that your track led toward these bushes, and thinks I to myself, thinks I, you'd crawled in there to take a snooze, and I hove ahead to wake you up, but I was too ambitious for me own good, as was the case when I proposed to Bridget O'Flannigan, and found that she had been already married to Tim McGubbins a twelvemonth, and had a pair of twins to boast of.
O'Flannigan was boarding and lodging them at ten dollars a week apiece, and they were cheerfully giving their notes for it. They were perfectly satisfied, but Bridget presently found that notes that could not be discounted were but a feeble constitution for a Carson boarding-house. So she began to harry the Governor to find employment for the "Brigade."
Occasionally, also, the better classes embellished their canvas by pasting pictures from Harper's Weekly on them. We had a carpet and a genuine queen's-ware washbowl. Consequently we were hated without reserve by the other tenants of the O'Flannigan "ranch." When we added a painted oilcloth window curtain, we simply took our lives into our own hands.
O'Flannigan, whose anxiety to know the amount of damage done by the assaulting roof had not prevented her waiting a judicious interval, after getting out of bed and lighting up, to see if the wind was done, now, up stairs, or had a larger contract. The landscape presented when the lantern flashed into the room was picturesque, and might have been funny to some people, but was not to us.
They were boarding around privately, and had their offices in their bedrooms. The Secretary and I took quarters in the "ranch" of a worthy French lady by the name of Bridget O'Flannigan, a camp follower of his Excellency the Governor.
O'Flannigan was boarding and lodging them at ten dollars a week apiece, and they were cheerfully giving their notes for it. They were perfectly satisfied, but Bridget presently found that notes that could not be discounted were but a feeble constitution for a Carson boarding-house. So she began to harry the Governor to find employment for the "Brigade."
"Ye said it yerself, I didn't," snarled Bob sullenly. "Said what?" "That yer dad would nail Danny O'Flannigan, sure." "And is that sellin' his vote?" "What else is it, then?" demanded Bob wrathfully. "He votes as Danny says, an' Danny sends him trade, an' oh, oh, q-quit it q-quit it I say!" choked Bob, breath and speech almost cut off by the furious clutch of Jim's lean little fingers.
Swiftly she changed the position of a Turkish rug so as to hide a spot on the polished floor that had been recently scrubbed and was still moist. It seemed best to discover Nora's plan of campaign before taking over the charge of affairs. "Many's the time I've met yuh goin' down the Avenoo with your heels clickin' an' your head high," came the rich brogue of Nora O'Flannigan.
"Tut, tut, not so fast, my boy," cut in Danny O'Flannigan pompously. "Your father has already " A strong hand gripped O'Flannigan's shoulder, and an agonized pair of eyes arrested his words. "For God's sake, man," muttered Barlow, "have you no mercy? Think have you no son of your own that believes you 're almost God Himself?"
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