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Well, las' year, when we went up emp'y to Bargoona same trip the ole man got that wonderful drink off Moriarty who should we fine there but this Alf, waitin' for wool, an' due for the fust load. No fear o' him goin' up emp'y nyther. He'd manage to collar six ton"
Moriarty utters the familiar and appropriate words the Irish Secretary will say with deprecatory gesture, "Enough, enough. 'Twas ever thus. This is the effect of kindness. What ho, my henchmen bold! A flagon, a mighty flagon of most ancient sack. I feel that I am about to be prostrated. Such is the fate of greatness. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
The cook growled assent; and the two strangers took their places at the table. "Scotty thought he knew you," observed Moriarty, with characteristic profundity, as we turned again toward the barracks. The remark broke a spell that was coming over me. "And I thought I knew his mate, though I can't manage to locate him," I replied.
Well, then, it's right to tell you that you're in a very ugly scrape, for it was my wife you took home last night not Miss Moriarty; and I leave you to choose at your leisure whether you'd rather be defendant in a suit for breach of promise or seduction; and, upon my conscience, I think it's civil in me to give you a choice." What a pretty disclosure was here!
"Well, directly everybody was asleep last night it wasn't till after one, as there was a rag on Moriarty and I got up, dressed, and climbed up into the gallery. Ye know the gallery windows? They open at the top, an' it's rather hard to get out of them. But we managed it, and dropped on to the gravel outside." "Long drop," said Clowes. "Yes. I hurt myself rather. But it was in a good cause.
"But the best part," said Watts, who was lolling on one of the lounges, "was those 'sixt' ward presents. As Mr. Moriarty said; 'Begobs, it's hard it would be to find the equal av that tureen! He was right! Its equal for ugliness is inconceivable." "Yet the poor beggars spent eight hundred dollars on it" sighed Lispenard, wearily. "Relative to the subject " said Mr. Pierce.
"But to pursue my story, sir: the guns were loaded, and with the intensity of the heat went off, one after another, and quite riddled one of his Majesty's frigates that was lying in the harbour." "That's one of the most difficult riddles to comprehend I ever heard," said Moriarty. "The frigate answered the riddle with her guns, sir, I promise you."
Was there any robbery?" "I have not heard." "If so, it would, of course, be against the first hypothesis and in favour of the second. Moriarty may have been engaged to engineer it on a promise of part spoils, or he may have been paid so much down to manage it. Either is possible. But whichever it may be, or if it is some third combination, it is down at Birlstone that we must seek the solution.
O'Hara made a rapid calculation. His fingers twiddled in the air as he worked out the problem. "Six years," he said at last, leaning back exhausted with brain work. "Then you must remember the League?" "Remember the League? Rather." "Well, it's been revived." O'Hara whistled. "This'll liven the old place up," he said. "I've often thought of reviving it meself. An' so has Moriarty.
"You sleek and smooth gentlemen who live in luxurious peace know little of a soldier's danger or feelings." "Captain, we all have our dangers to go through; and may be a priest has as many as a soldier; and we only show a difference of taste, after all, in the selection." "Well, Father Blake, all I know is, that a true soldier fears nothing!" said Moriarty with energy.
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