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She scr'ams, 'Me father! me father! Mary, he is murdered! Go to the library! An' thin she wint over in me arms loike a stone, poor dear, poor dear!" And the domestic began to weep afresh. "What did you do then?" "Sure, phat could Oi do? Oi scr'amed fer hilp as loud as Oi could, an' thin Mrs. Bardon an' her son, Alfred, the docthor, came over." "What happened next?"
"Yes, but where did you come from now?" "From the foort beyant, sur." "Well, Patsey, what can you do?" "Phat can I do, is it? Faix, yer honor, it's phat I can't do yer'd better be axin'! There's nothin' in my loine that I don't understand parfectly, sur." "Have you a recommendation?" "What's that, sur?" "Any paper recommending you." "Och, it's me characther, is it, yeze afther axin' fur?
"I want to get in;" and Richard related the particulars of his plight. "You'll have a job, me b'y," was the reply. "Mrs. Betty slapes like a log." They waited for several minutes in silence. But nobody appeared and no sound came from within. "Phat are you going to do?" asked the policeman finally. "I don't know, I'm sure. My valise is inside with my money.
Reddy had saluted and said nothing at the time, but when they were once out on post he told Skipper all about it. "Sure an' it's app'arin' before all the swells in town you'll be, me b'y. Phat do ye think of that, eh? An' mebbe ye'll be gettin' a blue ribbon, Skipper, me lad; an' mebbe Mr. Patrick Martin will have a roundsman's berth an' chevrons on his sleeves afore the year's out."
"Aw cum off, Hickey," said Sullivan, "phat the divil does yez know av foightin' injuns? Phat were ye over in the auld sod? Nathin' but a turf digger. Phat were ye here before ye 'listed? Dom ye, I think ye belong to the Clan na Gael and helped to murther poor Doc Cronin, bad cess to ye."
"Ah," responded the fortune-teller, "if he sought me I would know him. He has simply accompanied you as a sightseer. Now, Captain, what can I do for you?" "How ye know me, Lucinda, is morn than Oi can comprehend, Oi've often heard av ye. As ye know me ye must be aware av me business an' can also tell phat Oi'm here fur."
The laundress hurdled the ambiguous pronouns like a thoroughbred. "Is it th' trut' ye're tellin' me?" she demanded, forgetting her graces, and grounding her saucer with a clatter. "Cross me hear-rt," said the housemaid, enjoying her sensation. "Ye'll excuse me intherruptin' " "Ye're no intherruptin'. 'Tis th' ind iv th' shtory." "But phat did th' good ma-an say?"
Pepper can go over there behind those bushes and watch the road. Don can watch the door, and I will go on the other side and look out for the window." "And phat will Oi be doing?" asked Gerald, who could not resist his fun-making instincts. "You can hide down by the shore and watch the river." "We ought to have some kind of a signal if we hear them coming," suggested Pepper.
I ginerally do the swapin', and me wife or Kittie, me daughter, do the winder clanin' an' the dustin'." "During the past four or five days, have you noticed anything unusual around this office?" went on Dick. "Phat are ye after mainin'?" "I'll tell you. There has been a robbery here, and we want to get at the bottom of it."
"I haven't touched a thing, sur, an' nather have me family!" cried the janitor, quickly. "You look like an honest man, and I can't say that I suspect you," continued Dick, for he saw that the old janitor was evidently much hurt. "I want you to help me all you can, that is all." "Sure, sur, an' I'll be after doin' that, Mr. Rover. Phat did they be after takin'?"
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