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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Lord Kilcullen, your mother and I " began the father, intent on at once commenting on the iniquity of the late arrival; when he saw the figure of a very stout gentleman, amply wrapped up in travelling habiliments, follow his son into the inner hall. "Tierney, my lord," said the son, "was good enough to come down with me.
"'Why, av course, said I, 'far be it from Benedict Tierney to put a lock on knowledge! and I got thim down. 'There's one that was made for Leonard Calvert in 1643' says I, 'and there's another showing St. Mary's about the time of the Indian massacre, and there's a very rare one of the Chesapeake "'Extremely interesting' he says, 'but for General Jackson's purposes 1862 will answer.
When you look those things up you generally find that the car has been stolen from some respectable citizen." "Tierney and I arrived just after the patrolmen got back to the building, and the man in front told us about it. I was puzzled over just what the game was until we heard the shooting up here.
So, not knowing what else to do, he followed the girls indoors, a part of the women pressing after. But most of the crowd trailed in the wake of the little procession which was being led by the doctor into the Hapgood cottage, only to be promptly shut out at the door. Dalton went inside with the doctor, but the marshal put a hand on Nate's shoulder, and said under his breath, "Come, Tierney."
It's a dirt road, and easier on his horse, the poor crathur " "Thanks. I'll try the pike," said Marchmont, from the doorstep. "Bah! it's turning cold! Had you noticed, father, what exceedingly thin ice you have around this house?" "By all the powers, my son!" answered Father Tierney. "The moonlight's desaving you! That isn't water that's firm ground.
With considerable effort, and hindered by the blackness of the night, Marsh and Morgan climbed the slanting, slate-covered roof and perched themselves on the broad capstone of the chimney. Slowly they loosened the wedged in body, gradually drew it out through the top of the chimney, and passed it down to Tierney and Nels, who crept with it along the gutter and passed it through the attic window.
All three then went down to the library where Nels was building the fire. Tierney loudly voiced his approval as the red and yellow flames began to creep over the wood. A minute later, however, he was choking and swearing as the acrid wood smoke rolled out into the room instead of up the chimney. "Aye fix him," explained Nels. "Chimney cover to keep out draft, mebbe." He hurried out of the room.
Tierney rose from the step where he had been sitting, to let her pass, and she favored him with one of her pretty smiles as he did so. Tierney then climbed after them to the next landing and stood watching. Marsh waited until the door closed after her. Then, with a catch in his breath that sounded suspiciously like a sigh, he went back to his apartment.
"There's a man knows him better than I do Murphy, the man on the beat. He spent quite a spell with Marsh last night." "That's right," agreed Morgan. "How did you fix it?" "The Captain put another man on Murphy's beat, and put Murphy into plain-clothes for tonight. It worked all right, because Murphy was a night man anyway." "You're all right, Tierney," Morgan complimented him.
"My dear lord," said the other, surprised and grieved, "I beg ten thousand pardons, if I have unintentionally said anything, which you feel to be either. But, surely, if I am not wrong in asking, the match between you and Miss Wyndham is broken off?" "May I ask you, Mr Tierney, who told you so?"
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