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Well, it's little of them that passed between us, barrin' that the Injins was so near by, that it was whisper we did, and not a bit else." "Still there must have been some message." "Ye are as wise as a sarpent, Miss Maud, as Father O'Loony used to tell us all of a Sunday! Was it wor-r-ds! Give that to Miss Maud, says the majjor, says he, 'and tell her she is now misthress of my sacret."
"Divil a bit, majjor Joel had broken the orders, ye see and that settled the matter. The thing that is once broken is broken, and wor-r-ds can't mend it, any more than for bearin' to fire a gun will mend it." By dint of cross-questioning, Robert Willoughby finally succeeded in getting something like an outline of the truth from Mike.
A message should be delivered as nearly like the words that were actually sent as possible." "Wor-r-ds! And it isn't wor-r-ds at all, that I have to give ye." "If not a message in words, in what else can it be? Not in sticks, surely." "In that" cried Mike, exultingly "and, I'll warrant, when the trut' comes out, that very little bit of silver will be found as good as forty Injin scalps."
Joel, and his poor'atin's, blazed away at 'em, as if they had been so many Christians and 'twould have done yer heart good to have heard the serjeant belabour them with hard wor-r-ds, for their throuble. There's none of the poor'atin' family in the serjeant, who's a mighty man wid his tongue!" "And the savages returned the volley which explains the distant discharge I heard."
Still, she had sufficient self-command to make an effort to learn all her companion had to communicate. "Major Willoughby gave you this box," she said, her voice trembling in spite of herself. "Did he send any message with it? Recollect yourself; the words may be very important." "Is it the wor-r-ds?
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