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"And we'll lure them as they swim, eh?" "That's it." "How will we make up?" "You are to became Dudie Dunne. I will become Silly Sal." "And we'll bet on the races?" "We will." "It's a go, Cad. To-morrow we will take in the races and chum for our game." On the following day the two detectives, well gotten up for their "chumming" scheme, started down for the Sheepshead Bay track.
Joyce had happy dreams about the mending of the family fortunes, which would be effected by Bessy's marriage with Jerry Dunne. When her neighbour, Mrs. Ryan, looked in, she could not forbear mentioning the expected call, and was further elated because Mrs.
Casey Dunne nodded as one who sees things turning out as he expected. "Then naturally we shall be forced to fight you." "As you like," said York indifferently. "You will lose, that's all. I can't do any more for you. It is my duty to my shareholders to increase the value of those lands if I can do so legally."
It embodied the results of very lengthy experiments carried out both with gliders and power-driven machines by Colonel Capper, Lieut. Gibbs, and Lieut. Dunne, and constituted the longest step so far taken in the direction of inherent stability.
Old Ike James whispered to his neighbour: "This here Highland Scotch stock is sure a funny proposition. What they start with a pra'ar they're mighty apt to end with a gun. Ol' Donald's a sure-'nough wolf when he gets goin'." "And you, Dunne?" asked Wyndham. "I'm in. I guess it's a case. Oscar, you have a great head. When shall we start the fireworks, and who's to start 'em?"
"You force us to sell, and afterward you include our lands in your ditch system, and clean up a thousand per cent. It won't do. We proved that country, and we want that profit ourselves." "I'm making the offer to you alone," said York. "I don't care about the others. We don't want their land." "Then why are you trying to make a deal with me?" rasped Casey Dunne.
But that slight, frail, homely lady of seventy, with kindly eyes of a faded blue, smiled upon his fears. She had sheltered fugitives before in the old days of the Commonwealth and nothing but good had ever come of it. She would see this messenger. With misgivings, Carpenter haled Dunne into her presence, and left them alone together.
A moment afterward Kitty Wade entered, looking around. "Yours, too," she said. "No mere bachelor ever did these things, Clyde. The Chinaman is out of the question. It is to find the woman." "We'll ask Mr. Dunne," said Clyde. But it was not till after dinner that Kitty Wade did so. "Miss McCrae was kind enough to fix up the rooms for you," Casey replied. "Who is Miss McCrae?"
We will here state for the information of our readers who are making their first acquaintance with Oscar Dunne that in a great case in which he had been engaged he met a beautiful Italian girl who aided him very materially.
He was a swordsman, but realized that all his skill would go for naught, seeing that the game was exposed. Indeed, a most remarkable tableau was presented, but Girard tried to play out to save his confrères. He said: "Well, well, Dunne, I expected to work a big scare on you, but I see you have been too smart. The next time I attempt a practical joke I will measure my intended victim better."
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