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He was not so quick with his tongue as with his limbs. He knew his brother well enough to foresee the effect of failure. Luke FitzHenry was destined to be one of those unfortunate men who fail ungracefully. "Do not decide in too great a hurry," said Fitz at length, rather lamely. "Don't be a fool!" "No, it has been decided for me by my beastly bad luck." "It WAS bad luck deuced bad luck."
It happened that Luke FitzHenry was in a dangerous mood when he read this letter. He had been up half the night. The captain had been cross-grained and unreasonable. Even the mildest of us has his moments of clear-sightedness when he sees the world and the hollowness thereof. Luke saw this and more when he had read Mrs. Harrington's evil communication.
Two of the vague attendants who are always to be found in their numbers about the doorway and stableyard of a Spanish country-house took the horses, and Fitz wandered round the patio to the southern door which led to the terrace. There was not very much change in Henry FitzHenry since we saw him in Mrs. Harrington's drawing-room six years earlier.
"The truth is," said Agatha, "that I have an inward conviction that it would only be more trouble than it is worth." "What would be more trouble than it is worth?" "Going ashore." "Then you will not go?" he asked eagerly. "I think not," she answered, with demure downcast eyes. And Luke FitzHenry was the happiest man on board the Croonah. There was no mistaking her meaning.
While the light failed over the land two men were riding through it as fast as horse could lay hoof to the ground. They were on the small road running from the Soller highway up to the Val d'Erraha, and he who led the way seemed to know every inch of it. This was Henry FitzHenry, and his companion, ill at ease in a Spanish saddle, was the doctor of Her Majesty's gunboat Kittiwake.
Grim Care was with these boys in the railway carriage. A great catastrophe had come to them. A FitzHenry had failed to pass into her Majesty's Navy. Back and back through the generations back to the days when England had no navy she had always been served at sea by a FitzHenry. Moreover, there had always been a Henry of that name on the books.
Harrington's; but I did not refer to the question raised at my house in Barcelona, because I noticed the change to which you allude. Instead, I attempted to gain the co-operation and assistance of a mutual friend, Henry FitzHenry." Cipriani de Lloseta paused and looked at his companion, who in turn gazed stolidly at the fire. "And I received a rebuff," added the Count.
The Croonah sailed by time-table, subjecting the winds and seas, as the great steamships do nowadays. Luke FitzHenry had calculated this to a minute before he telegraphed the single word "Milksop" to Willie Carr in London. He was on the bridge a few minutes before eight bells rang, and found the captain. He knew his chief's customs.
Luke FitzHenry was clever even in his crime; he had three hundred lives to save. He stood motionless as a statue, gazing at the smooth unbroken water in front of him; he grasped the rail and set his teeth; he stood well back with his feet firmly planted. And there was a grinding crash.
Even in this, the great street of the town, there is scarcely any one, and it is as vacant and listless as Pall Mall in October. The building of Dublin "Castle" for the residence of the Viceroys retains the term was commenced by Meiler FitzHenry, Lord Justice of Ireland, in 1205; and finished, fifteen years afterward, by Henry de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin.
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