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He understood that great importance was attached to the performance of "Rule, Brittania" by the band. Gallagher walked across to young Kerrigan. "I know now," he said, "what the tune is you're meaning to play." "If you know that," said Kerrigan, "you know more than I do." "None of your lies now. Constable Moriarty is after telling me the name of the tune."
He kissed the letter mockingly and put it back into his pocket. "Sure I got one, jist the same way. The very same langwidge, nearly," commented Mr. Tiernan, sweetly. "He's beginning to wake up, eh? What! The little old first and second are beginning to look purty big just now, eh? What!" "Tush!" observed Mr. Kerrigan to Mr.
Young Kerrigan, stimulated by the cheers, worked the band up to a fortissimo performance of his tune. Dr. O'Grady held his hat in his hand. He signalled frantically to Father McCormack. He took off his hat, whispering to Major Kent as he did so. The Major, who was utterly bewildered, and not at all sure what was happening, took off his hat.
He, however, represented Kavanagh as the captain of the vessel, and General James E. Kerrigan as chief of the military expedition. As to the armament on board, they had, he said, "some Spencer's repeating rifles, seven-shooters, and some Enfield rifles, Austrian rifles, Sharp's and Burnside's breech-loaders, and some revolvers.
Truscott, the last scout we started out on, and how you came to see us off and wish me good luck?" "As well as though it were only yesterday," she answered. "We had good luck. It was one of the best scouts ever made from Sandy, and the Apaches caught it heavily. It was a success all through except our our losing Tanner and Kerrigan. Jack's hit was to be envied."
What's to hinder you from electin' yourself and droppin' the rest of the ticket?" He had almost said "knifing." Mr. Kerrigan smiled. In spite of all his previous dissatisfaction with the Chicago situation he had not thought of Mr. Gilgan's talk as leading to this. It was an interesting idea. He had "knifed" people before here and there a particular candidate whom it was desirable to undo.
No more franchises, no more street-paving contracts, no more gas deals. Nothing for two years, anyhow, and maybe longer. If we win we'll take the jobs and the fat deals." He paused and surveyed Kerrigan cheerfully but defiantly. "Now, I've just been all over the city," he continued, "in every ward and precinct, so I know something of what I am talking about.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Moriarty. There's nobody injuring the girl's character except, maybe, yourself. Doyle tells me you're never out of the back-yard of the hotel." "You put it out that she was married to young Kerrigan." "That was Thady Gallagher," said Dr. O'Grady, "and it didn't do her a bit of harm. Nobody except Mr. Billing believed it."
Tiernan, Kerrigan, and Edstrom were friendly as yet; but they were already making extravagant demands; and the reformers those who had been led by the newspapers to believe that Cowperwood was a scoundrel and all his works vile were demanding that a strictly moral programme be adhered to in all the doings of council, and that no jobs, contracts, or deals of any kind be entered into without the full knowledge of the newspapers and of the public.
As a matter of fact, all that Mr. Gilgan was saying was decidedly true. A henchman of young MacDonald's who was beginning to learn to play politics an alderman by the name of Klemm had been scheduled as a kind of field-marshal, and it was MacDonald not Gilgan, Tiernan, Kerrigan, or Edstrom who was to round up the recalcitrant aldermen, telling them their duty.
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