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"I 'lows your missis ken cook," said Shaky, with enthusiasm. "The feller as sez she can't lies. But wi' her, my respec' fer your hog-pen ends. I guess this argyment is closed fer va-cation. Who's fer 'draw'?" Slum turned back to the bar. "Here, Carney," he said, planking out a ten-dollar bill, "hand over chips to that.
Burke here, and as that fact will cause the existence of a short interegnum, I now publicly appoint Gusty Carney as my locum tenens until I resume the reins of government on my return.
"Stop a moment, Carney," interrupted his wife. "The London chap may be the fraud. Let us go slow, my dear." "Slow? How the devil can we go slow in such fast company? No! This fellow is the fraud. And they knew it too. They all know it. They " "Rubbish! You forget that the whole Rodney tribe is up in arms because Medcroft is making love to his wife's sister.
The little Irishman, Carney, bending low, strove to drag his prostrate leader, stunned by a kick from his dying horse, around behind the nearest lodge, when he, too, was sent blindly stumbling forward and sprawling in the dust, shot through and through from an unseen rifle not ten feet away, and the gallant fellow never heard the furious cheer with which "C" Troop came charging back to the rescue.
For a while afterward it had looked as though that, would be the score for the game -two to nothing. "If Brayton uses Prescott just right, and doesn't call on them too often, they'll get the ball over the Navy's goal line yet," confided Lieutenant Carney to a brother officer who stood at his side. "The Navy line-up is a great one this year," replied his comrade.
Their bedrooms were separated by a thin partition, in which was a window, through which Carney had, on the night of the murder, observed a light in Merton's room, and, on looking in, had seen him dressing hastily. He also saw him twice take up, and again lay down, the red-hafted knife which had been found in the bed of the murdered man. He knew it by the handle being broken near the end.
In other respects, Captain Carney happening to be the officer who came on board, was a fortunate circumstance; for on learning that young Allen was in the ship, he invited the passengers to dine on board his frigate; and the company, consisting of the Governor, his staff, and principal officers in the garrison, tended to raise the consideration of the Artist, and his companion in the estimation of the fleet with which their vessel was to proceed to Leghorn.
Dorgan, the country prosecutor, had been defeated for re-election by a man named Carney who was known to be friendly to Singleton. Moreton had also been defeated by "Slim" McCray, who hailed from a little town called Keegles, southeast from Willets. It was rumored after the election that Slim McCray had been friendly to Antrim, though no one advanced any evidence in support of the rumor.
Then draw down the shade. Wilson, you and Carney come over here, and keep an eye on these two men. Miles, let me speak to you a moment." I led him into one corner, outlining the situation in a dozen words. "There may be half a dozen in the dining-room yes, just across the hall including a preacher armed, of course, but they don't suspect there is a Blue-coat within ten miles.
"Says he was there. 'Pon my word, it's most uncanny. There's some mystery here." "I've got it, Carney! This is not Roxbury Medcroft." "Good Gawd!" "This explains everything. Heavens, Carney! This fellow is is her lover! She's running about the country with him. She's " "Her lover? 'Gad, my dear, he may have been so at one time, but he's the other one's lover now, take my word for it.
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