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They'll not git at the Chestnut, for I'll slape in the stall me self." As Allis moved away, Mike stood watching the neat figure. "That's the game, eh?" he muttered to himself; "the gal don't trust Redpath no more'n I do; palaver don't cut no ice wit' her. The b'y didn't finish on Lucretia, an' that's all there is to it. But how's Alan goin' to turn the trick in a big field of rough ridin' b'ys?
"I'm looking for my brother," replied Tom. "Sorry to disturb you. Have you seen anything of him?" "Sure an' I don't know yer brother from the side av sole leather, Vy. Go 'long an' let me an' me family slape," replied the Irishman. "I've got to find my brother, sir. I'm afraid he has met with foul play. He came to see the men who just went out." "Oh, is that so now? Foul play, is it?
"A few moments before, a man dressed in holyday garb tried the doors and windows of the cottage, and, finding them securely fastened, murmured, "''Tis frighted she is, an' I away, an' tired, too, wid spinnin', I'll be bound. Well, I'll not rise her now. There's clane sthraw in the barn, an' I'll slape there till mornin'.
Herself had to sit up an' laugh in the bed and be plaguin' me wit' her tarkin'. 'Look at Nora! says she. 'Where's Nora? says I, wit' a great start. I thought something had happened the poor shild. 'Oh, go to slape, you fool! says Mary Ann.
'Plase God, surr; 'tis the slape I want, surr; 'tis my breathin' makes the nights so long. 'He is a careful fellow this, you must know, said the Doctor, cheerfully; 'it was raining hard when they put him in the open cart to bring him here, and he had the presence of mind to ask to have a sovereign taken out of his pocket that he had there, and a cab engaged.
"'Tis better to put him out iv his misery by bleedin' him at the throat." The strain had been too much for the lad. "Don't be doin' ut," he cried. "There'll be no blood in me throat. Give me a little time. 'Tis cold an' weak I am. Be lettin' me lay down an' slape a bit. Then I'll be warm an' the blood'll flow." "'Tis no use," Sullivan objected. "As if ye cud be slapin' at a time like this.
It's wishin' I am that I had you in ould Ireland," growled Corporal Flynn, referring to Osman Digna, whose men had opened fire on the neighbouring fort, and again roused the whole garrison. "Slape is out o' the question wi' such a muskitos buzzin' about. Bad luck to 'ee!"
"Ye didn't hear of me old grand-uncle, McNamara of County Sligo dyin' after a useless life and doin' the only thing that made me proud of him now that he's gone may he slape in peace lavin' the money he'd kept such a close fist on all his life to his God-fearin' nephew so that he can spind the rest of his days in comfort? Didn't ye hear that?" "I did not. And who was the nephew that came into it?"
"Wult have thee own wai, I reckon," said Betty, being cross with sleepiness, for she had washed up everything; "slape in hog-pound, if thee laikes, Jan." Then I saw, as sure as ever I was standing there in the shadow of the stable, I saw a short wide figure glide across the foot of the courtyard, between me and the six-barred gate.
It was Mulvaney who was speaking. The time was one o'clock of a stifling June night, and the place was the main gate of Fort Amara, most desolate and least desirable of all fortresses in India. What I was doing there at that hour is a question which only concerns M'Grath the Sergeant of the Guard, and the men on the gate. "Slape," said Mulvaney, "is a shuparfluous necessity.
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