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"He always yells like that at the sight of tramps or stray people about," apologised the cook. "He's better than a watch-dog. Hold your tongue, you baste; don't you know your misthress when you see her?" "Rafferty caught him in the park," said Phyl, "and cut his tongue with a sixpence so as to make him able to speak." They left the kitchen and came into the yard.
Evidently my arrival down here had been noted by those keen eyes which look after every single vote as a miser does his pennies. A man had been found who had at least a speaking acquaintance with me, and plans already set on foot to round me up. I was inclined at first to treat this new development as a joke. But as Rafferty talked on he set me to thinking.
Mrs Rafferty, to prove her kind feelings, took the boy into her own room, and placed before him several articles of food and delicacies, such as had never before passed his lips. She watched him while he ate.
I must make an exception of an Irishman I will call Dan Rafferty. He was a big blue-eyed fellow, full of fun and fight, with a good natured contempt of the Dagoes, and was a born leader. I noticed, the first day, that he came nearer being the boss of the gang than the foreman, and I suspect the latter himself noticed it, for he seemed to have it in for Dan.
"How do ye know what they're doin'? They might be sealin' up parts of the mine down below! That's what makes it so horrible nobody knows what's happenin'! Ye should have heard poor Mrs. Rafferty screamin'. Joe, it went through me like a knife. Just think, it's been half an hour since they brought him up, and the poor lady can't be told if her man is alive." Hal stood for a few moments in thought.
Then, as he held a big foot to the warmth he talked down at the girl, telling her of what he had been about and the ruination Rafferty was letting the greenhouses go to. "Half-a-dozen panes of glass out and 'I've no putty, says he. 'Putty, said I to him, 'and what's that head of yours made of? The stoves are all out of order and there's a hole in one of the flues I could get my thumb in."
Frank's face expressed satisfaction. "That will be bully," he said. "I beg pardon," said the old gentleman, politely. "What did you remark?" "That will be excellent," said Frank, blushing. "I thought you spoke of a bully." "It was a word I learned from Dick Rafferty," said Frank, feeling rather embarrassed. "And who is Dick Rafferty?" "One of my friends at the Lodging-House."
"It's your honour and Mr. Maurice going off that grieves me," she said. "Sure, if you must go, you must. I'll not let the house go to ruin for want of dusting and cleaning, and looking afther the poultry and the pigs, and Dan Rafferty and the boys!" Molly was much comforted when my father assured her that he could intrust the place to her care with perfect confidence.
"You need money to set up in either of them lines," said Dick Rafferty. "Would twenty-five cents have been enough?" asked Frank. "You could have bought some evening papers with that." "I wish somebody would lend me some money," said Frank; "I'd pay it back as soon as I'd sold my papers. I was a fool to let that fellow swindle me."
Ya ain't gonta let 'em die, are ya, ? Them two!" Billy had seized a heavy hose and was turning it on a central spot and Jim Rafferty caught the idea and turned his stream that way, and into the fire went the brave men, one and another, instantly, cheerfully, devotedly, the men who loved the two men in there. Dead or alive they should be got out if it killed them all. They would all die together.
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