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O'Ruddy, and I'll be parole that they won't attack you again." "And who will give his parole that Lord Strepp will not attack me again?" "Well, O'Ruddy," I took great comfort from the fact that he dropped the Mr., "Well, O'Ruddy, you see we cannot possibly give up this estate. You are not legally entitled to it. It is ours and always has been." "I'm not fighting for any estate, Lord Strepp."
Indeed, the horsemen themselves, with the exception of Lord Strepp, appeared to take little comfort in their position, and were now more anxious to fall behind and urge on the others on foot than to lead the band with his lordship. I let them all get very close, then held up my hand, and you would think pandemonium was let loose.
Even the guards around the Manor House fled as we approached it, for the fame of our turbulence had spread abroad in the land. Lord Strepp tried to persuade them that nothing would happen to them, for when he saw the style in which we were coming he was anxious to make a show from the Westport side and had drawn up his men in line to receive us.
The Earl's valet was waiting there. "I pray you, sir, follow me," he said. I followed him to an expensive part of the inn, where he knocked upon a door. It was opened by a bending serving-man. The room was a kind of parlour, and in it, to my surprise, were Lord Strepp and Colonel Royale. They gazed at me with a surprise equivalent to mine own.
"You are wounded in four places already. You are in my hands. You will fight no more to-day." "But, Strepp!" wailed the Colonel. "Oh, my God, Strepp!" "You fight no more to-day," said the young lord. Then happened unexpected interruptions. Paddy told me afterward that during the duel a maid had looked over a wall and yelled, and dropped a great brown bowl at sight of our occupation.
"I intend as I intended," I replied. "There is no change in me." "And your intentions?" said he. "To give them into the hands of Lady Mary Strepp and no other," said I boldly. I looked at him. He looked at me. "Lady Mary Strepp, my daughter," he said in ironic musing. "Would not her mother do, O'Ruddy?" he asked softly. I gave a start. "She is not near?" I demanded, looking from here to there.
Heaven help this devil from getting his sword into your bowels." He had made the appointment with Strepp, of course, and as we walked toward the ground he looked at me very curiously out of the ends of his eyes. "You know ah, you have the honour of the acquaintance of Lady Mary Strepp, O'Ruddy?" said he suddenly and nervously. "I have," I answered, stiffening. Then I said: "And you?"
Half an hour passed, but nothing happened, and I began to wonder whether or not they had captured our man, when suddenly his face appeared. "They are coming, sir," he cried, "by the dozen. Lord Strepp is leading them." "Will they be here soon, do you think?" "I cannot tell.
"Well, when the Earl was a young man serving with the French he rather recklessly carried with him some valuable papers relating to some estates in the North, and once the noble Earl or Lord Strepp as he was then found it necessary, after fording a stream, to hang his breeches on a bush to dry, and then a certain blackguard of a wild Irishman in the corps came along and stole "
I was already believing that he did not have more than one brain in his head, but I could not be ungrateful for his interest and enthusiasm in getting me out to be hurt correctly. I understood, long years afterward, that he and Lord Strepp were each so particular in the negotiations that no less than eighteen bottles of wine were consumed.
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