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"Jist come in, Brady," said Traynor, as he dragged him along; "walk in, man alive; sure, and sich an honest man as you are needn't be afeard of lookin' his friends in the face! Ho! an' be me sowl, is it a spy we've got; and, I suppose, would be an informer' too, if he had heard anything to tell!" "What's the manin' of this, boys?" exclaimed the others, feigning ignorance.
The very knowledge that he had on his person gems worth over a million dollars, and this in a wild, uncivilized country where at any moment he might be followed, ambushed and killed, and no one the wiser, was not calculated to calm his nerves. But Kenneth Traynor had never known the meaning of the word fear. He was ready for any emergency and he went about unarmed, cool and unruffled.
The startling news from Philadelphia that Dorothy had suddenly disappeared and was believed to have been kidnapped, fell upon the Traynor home with the crushing force of a bombshell. At first Helen refused to credit the report. It seemed impossible that any new suffering was to be inflicted upon her after what she had already endured.
"You sweet thing how could you look foolish? What an idea! Only please don't worry, dear. I never do." Mr. Steell nodded sympathetically. "It's nothing to be ashamed of, Mrs. Traynor. It shows you have a fine, sensitive nature. It is only the grosser natures that are callous and unaffected by the anxieties of life." Taking the remarks to herself, Ray threw up her head indignantly.
Paying no heed to the compliment, Keralio went on: "What did Handsome say?" "He is puzzled himself and can't understand. Everyone's up in the air. They think it is a discharged maid who did it for spite." "The next time Mrs. Traynor receives a sudden message about her baby it will not be a hoax." The valet looked up in surprise. "What do you mean?"
Of us, however, he neither could nor did know anything, for we were under-tenants, our immediate landlord being no less a person than Hugh Traynor, then so famous for the distillation, sub rosa, of exquisite mountain dew, and to whom the reader will find allusions made in that capacity more than once in the following volume.
Traynor had declared to the owners that after getting the women aboard the boat he had taken all the money from the safe and such packages as it was possible to carry, and tossed three or four to Loring as he stood balancing himself on a thwart and clinging to the fall, and that he was sure one of them was that of the Señorita Pancha, for she was at the moment clasping Loring's knees and imploring him to sit down.
I believe, for all your larnin', the Findramore boys have sacked you at last!" "Ay!" exclaimed another, "he is sacked at last, in spite of his Matthew-maticks." "An', be my sowks," observed Traynor, "he'd be a long time goin' up a Maypowl in the state he's in his own snail would bate him."* * This alludes to a question in Gough's Arithmetic, which is considered difficult by hedge schoolmasters.
"Ay," observed O'Neil, "as Solvester Maguire, the poet, used to say 'Labor for larnin, before you grow ould, For larnin' is better nor riches nor gould; Riches an' gould they may vanquish away, But larnin' alone it will never decay." "Success, Owen! Why, you might put down the pot and warm an air to it," said Murphy. "Well, boys, are we all safe?" asked Traynor. "Safe?" said old Dolan.
But keep away from zem, or else they soon discover that 'Handsome Jack, ze penniless adventurer, is quite a different person from ze accomplished and wealthy Monsieur Kenneth Traynor." "We can't expect to keep the game up long," interrupted the big fellow moodily. "We won't have to," replied his companion calmly. "Just enough time to squeeze ze orange dry that's all " Handsome looked up quickly.
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