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Ussher had walked by quickly, and there was a look of satisfaction or rather gratified vanity in his face; he seemed, also, absorbed with the subject of his thoughts; Thady, however, as soon as he had passed, took but little notice of him, but walked on into the kitchen, at the rear of the house.
Missionaries and merchants had observed that certain 'messengers, or envoys, sent from Kumasi to acknowledge the presents of the late Governor Ussher, were lingering without apparent reason about Cape Coast Castle, after being formally dismissed. Moreover, their residing in the house of 'Prince Ansah, a personage not famous for plain dealing, boded no good. A new complication presently arose.
If Captain Ussher were not a proper young man in general, your father and you, Thady, wouldn't be letting him be so much with Feemy; and, now we're on it, if you did not mean it to be a match, and if you did not mean they should marry, why have you let him be so much at Ballycloran, seeing your father doesn't meddle much in anything now?"
He had picked up a bit in the Army not enough to send a message, of course. But a message was impossible, anyhow; Cayley would hear him tapping it out. It wouldn't do to send more than a single letter. What letters did he know? And what letter would convey anything to Antony?.... He pulled at his pipe, his eyes wandering from Cayley at his desk to the Reverend Theodore Ussher in his shelf.
"Well, Miss Feemy, that's very good of you now. And you'll be bringing your own sweetheart with you, won't you, dear? and it's I'd be sorry you'd be at my wedding, and no one fit to dance with your father's daughter." "Oh! if you mean Captain Ussher, he told me Pat asked him himself, and he'd sure be there."
Ussher, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast; a veteran in the tropics and an ex-commissariat officer, whose political service dated from 1861. In British India a change of rulers is always supposed to offer a favourable opportunity for 'doing something, often in the shape of a revolt or a campaign.
"And you have been there when certain persons swore that before twelve months were passed, Captain Ussher should be under the sod?" "Yes; I swear I heard thim words, and saw the boys take the oath." "But to the best of your belief the prisoner was never at this house when such an oath was taken?" "Is it Mr. Thady? He was niver at mother Mulready's at all."
"But you have been told that as the prisoner had met certain persons for the purpose of entering into a conspiracy of murdering Ussher and that that fact would be proved to you you are bound to consider that his coming across Ussher was not accidental, and that the manner in which he attacked that man whilst carrying off his sister was a part of his preconcerted plan.
"Nonsense, Thady; do you mean to say you are afraid to speak to your sister when you see the necessity? By speaking to Captain Ussher you mean quarrelling with him, and that's not what'll do Feemy any good." "Well, then, I'm sure, I'll do anything you tell me, Father John; but if she don't mind me, will you speak to her?"
Allewinde, "that it was he who killed Captain Ussher?" "Shure he made no bones about it all but told me straight out that he'd killed him in the avenue." "Did he say why he had done so?" "Faix I don't remember his saying thin why he'd done it and I didn't think to ask him. He was in a flurry like, as war nathural, and he and I carrying the dead man that'd been hearty only a few minutes afore!
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