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An instant later, O'Hagan returned, bearing a slip of white pasteboard which he deposited on the desk before Maitland. "'James Burleson Snaith," Maitland read aloud from the faultlessly engraved card. "I don't know him. What does he want?" "Wouldn't say, sor; seemed surprised whin I towld him ye were in, an' said he was glad to hear it business pressin', says he."
"Well, sor, I tuk the bag and wint out of the station, tuk the cab, an' did all as he towld me. I waited the foive minuts, but he niver came, so off I druv to Misther Hollams, and he threated me han'some, sor." "Yes, but tell me exactly all he did." "'Misther Hollams, sor? sez I. 'Who are ye? sez he.
"Yes, you did; and you think he ought to have gone?" "May be av he'd gone there, he'd never have stood here this day." "You wanted him to go to Mrs. Mulready's, then?" "Wanted! No, I didn't want nothing about it." "You only asked him to go?" "Jist as I towld you; I said av he guv the boys his word, as a man he shouldn't go from it." "Did you say anything to him about Mr. Jonas Brown?"
"Come, Corporal Free," said Bob, "as we've got to sit here till morning you'd better tell us one of your far-famed stories to make the time pass pleasantly at least as pleasantly as circumstances will allow." "Ay, Jacob Free," cried the Irishman, "that's well said. Give us that one about yoursilf whin ye was a schoolboy. A good story, you know, is niver a bit the worse o' bein' twice towld."
"Why, I towld him av he guv the boys a promise, he oughts never to go back from his word." "That is to say, you endeavoured to persuade him to go?" "By-dad, I don't know about persuading; it warn't for the likes of me to persuade him." "On your oath, sir, didn't you endeavour to induce the prisoner to go to Mrs. Mulready's?" "I towld him he ought to be as good as his word."
A freighter told the owld man she was at Sheridan, an' so he started there overland, hopin' ter head off 'Black Bart. Oi reckon we could a towld mor 'n that." "What do you mean?" "Why shure, honey, what's the use tryin' ter decave me? Didn't Jack Keith, wid his own lips, tell me ye was Christie Maclaire?" "But I'm not! I'm not, Mrs. Murphy. I don't even know the woman.
Towld me Oi wor to fill mesilf out; an' the sooner I sit about it, the betther, Oi'm afther thinkin'!" "Come along with me and you'll be all right," said the corporal kindly. "You novices will mess here on the middle deck, along with us police, till you pass your bag and hammock drill and get your uniforms. You're only what they calls `unclothed boys' at present, my lads!"
Well, to be sure, the owld man was frekened, but he plucked up his courage and his cuteness, and towld the divil, in a bantherin' way, jokin' like, that he had partic'lar business thin, that he was goin' to a party, and hoped an owld friend wouldn't inconvaynience him that-a-way.
"'An' sure, sir, he did not, an' thin we wint an' pullt Fred out from under the bed, where he'd crawled wid his two legs stickin' out in the moonlight, an' Tam an' messel' wur smilin' quiet like, an' Your Riverence towld us to shut up, an' we wint to bed, sur. "'And how did Tom act? said the doctor. 'Eh, Tom, you young rogue, what are you snickering and giggling at behind Pat's back?
"Oh, blessed God," said Coolin, "I wish I hadn't towld him I wish I hadn't towld the b'y." "Told 'im wot?" said Bagshot. But Coolin of the Commissariat did not answer; his head was on his arms, and his arms were on his knees. "'E was a flower," said Henry Withers of the Sick Horse Depot.
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