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"And you'd teach her to drink beer and she shall grow so fat that the Spalpeens won't know their auntie." At last "How much do they pay?" I asked, in desperation. And the thing that had appeared so absurd at first began to take on the shape of reality. Von Gerhard did speak to Norberg of the Post. And I am to go to Milwaukee next week.
Fred, as may be supposed, was alarmed, and starting half to his feet, glanced nervously around. He saw nothing. "What's the matter?" he asked in an undertone, as he also laid his hand upon his weapon. "Whin I was lookin' at ye," said Terry in a husky whisper, "I obsarved one of the spalpeens standin' right behind ye and close enough to touch ye with his hand.
It had been kindled originally by Sut for the purpose of cooking his meat, and he had renewed it that his friends might see exactly where they were, and, at the same time, look into each other's faces. "Let me ax ye," said Mickey, puffing away at his pipe, "whether, whin we start for home, we're going to take the pass, which seems as full of the spalpeens as me head is of grand ideas?"
"Fire away, ye spalpeens, for all the good it may do ye," called out the Irishman, who at this moment clambered out of range and sank down upon the ground. "Begorrah, I'm as tired as Jim O'Shaughnessey after his friendly match with his wife," gasped Mickey, speaking shortly and rapidly, as best he could, while he leaned over upon his elbow, until he could regain his strength and wind.
"Arrah! thim spalpeens w'd be mighty claver to get onything out of Biddy O'Toole," she answered, with a curl of her lips and cock of her nose, while her eyes twinkled; "sure if they force themselves into the house while the master is away, I'll bid them dare to disturb my old mither, whose troubled with a fever. If they come near the room, I'll give them a taste of the broomstick."
"He niver will do the same," remarked Tim gravely. "Why do you say that?" "He has been killed by the spalpeens, for if he hadn't, he would have showed himsilf before we lift the ranch." "It looks that way, but you cannot be certain." "I wish I couldn't, but he must have larned of thim being so near the house as soon as mesilf, or very nearly so, and he would have been back before me.
"It may be one of the spalpeens that got us into all this trouble," he added, still circling slowly about, with his eyes fixed upon the opening. "Those Apaches are sharp-eyed, and perhaps one of their warriors has struck our trail, and tracked us to that spot. If it's the same, then I does n't see what he is to gain by fooling round up there.
"That sittles it!" exclaimed Terry, with a sigh of relief; "ye are right in sayin' the Shawanoe would have knowed about it; he would have larned it before the spalpeens that started out on the war path, and, bein' as he didn't say any thin', I'm sure ye are right; but all the same, it looks bad for the Hunters of the Ozark, which maans oursilves as well as the men in the mountains."
"Well, Soot, me laddy, what do ye make of it?" "Thar's a party of the varmints just beyont the place we meant to ride out." "Well, what of that? You can lave the pass somewhere along here, where there seem plenty of places that ye can climb out, while I make a dash out of that, and we'll meet agin after we get clear of the spalpeens."
While we are looking about, and axing ourselves whether there's anybody else at all around us, one of the spalpeens sinds his bullet down here, coming closer to us than is plaisant. Did ye obsarve him?" "I saw nothing but the flash. Do you think they could see us?" "Not where we are now. We're too far away from the light.
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