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"I chust here him apout quarter of an hour ago, und I ride der horse's legs off ter told yer." "But what is it out with it?" "It's apout dot girl you vos lookin' for. Rosy Delaney, dot Irish vomans vot haf such a long tongue got, she tole me der sthory. Gott im himmel! it vos dreadful!" "But tell me what it is, Dutchy!" exploded Rasco. "Wot is dreadful?"
But, as Richard surmised, the boy had, by some means, already made his escape. But the marks of his muddy feet, as he had crawled from the hatchway, were still to be seen, and these Richard pointed out. "Vell, if your sthory is straight dat lafer ain't here now; so you go about your beesness." And with a wave of his arm the stalwart workman motioned for Richard to clear out.
In th' mane time we will call upon Gin'ral Merceer, that gallant man, to tell us th' sthory iv his life. "'I obey, mon colonel, says Gin'ral Merceer, kissin' th' coort. 'Not to begin too far back, an' to make a long sthory short, I am an honest man, an' th' son iv an honest man. I admit it. "'Good, says th' prisident. "'I says to mesilf thin, "This man is a thraitor."
"An' now will ye be afther tellin' us th' sthory av yer adventures, my dear?" Maren was cooking a broth of wild hen in the little pail of poor Marc Dupre, across the fire, and the little woman was busy watching a bit of bread baking on a smoothed plank.
"Der sthory she tole I can's most believe him." "See here, out with the whole thing, or I'll swat yer one on the cocoanut, Humpendinck!" roared Rasco. "Yer as long-winded ez a mule thet's gone blind." "Gracious, Rasco, you vouldn't hit me, afther I ride me dree miles und more ter tole you?" wailed the German, reproachfully. "I dink me you vos mine pest friend, next to Pawnee Prown, ain't it?"
I was by this time kneeling opposite the surgeon, who tore open Tom's shirts and examined his body. "Bedad, gentlemen," said the Irishman sadly, in a moment, "he's beyont the need of my profession. 'Tis well ye had that sthory ready, in case of accident." I stared incredulously at the surgeon, and then buried my face upon the dear body of the dead, mingling my wild tears with his blood.
The tall man stood in silence a moment and glared at the scene, at the excited faces, the gleaming eyes, the shifting glance of the spokesman. "A likely sthory!" he said presently. "An' who, may I make bould to ask, is this murderer?" DesCaut squirmed a moment in silence. "Who, did ye say?" "A man, M'sieu, a-a-trapper." "One lone man?
They're all right, thim la-ads, with their own pork-chops delivered free at th' door. 'Tis, 'Will ye have a new spring dhress, me dear? Willum, ring thim up, an' tell thim to hist th' price iv beef. If we had a few more pitchers an' statoos in th' musoom, 'twud ilivate th' people a sthory or two.
"Ton't believe it. Vere ist der poy now?" "He jumped up there and got through that hole," replied Richard, pointing to the place. The German uttered an exclamation. "Dat's nonsense!" "It's true. He stole two dollars and some letters, and I chased him in here." The man eyed Richard suspiciously. "Maype dot vas only a make-believe sthory; I don't know," he declared. "Come, ve go upstairs und see."
Shure, a man would tear his shirt to tatters for a tale like that," and with appreciative meditation over the vexatious quandary presented by the cunning of the bosom-maker in thus adding another ruinous possibility to the inevitable soil and wear, he added: "Shure, the man who put that sthory on the dickey-back knew his business.
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