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FEARGAL'S two immediate successors met a similar fate death in the field of battle after very brief reigns, of which we have no great events to record. FLAHERTY, the next who succeeded, after a vigorous reign of seven years, withdrew from the splendid cares of a crown, and passed the long remainder of his life thirty years in the habit of a monk at Armagh.
Fitzgerald took himself away. "Near midnight, the tall black figure of solemn-faced Father Flaherty stalked in. He was not pleased with the McCartys, but went to the side of the dying child, fondled her little wasted hand in his own, and whispered a prayer for her soul.
Flaherty on a high key, just as Joyce stepped graciously forward, with the words, "Isn't this the Mrs. Hemphill I remember?" The latter turned quickly. "Hey? Oh, why yes, I do mind you now. Let's see, you come to sell a washin' machine, didn't you? Or was it a story-paper?
The least he had anticipated was three months in hospital, and so grateful was he to Hicks and Flaherty for their great forbearance that he strangled a resolve to "lay" for Hicks and Flaherty and thrash them individually something he was fully able to do and forgot his aches and pains in a lively interest as to the fate of Captain Scraggs at the hands of the towboat men.
Flaherty's hands for investment, he had insisted upon the politician's taking a more liberal commission than was customary. His idea had been to show his appreciation and relieve himself from any entanglement or obligation. If Mr. Flaherty had chosen to consider it a bribe, he, Felix Brand, could hardly be held responsible for another's idiosyncrasies. Yes, he had talked with Mr.
The confused sounds that reached Marie were vibrating with trouble and despair, but that long-drawn "do-octhor" came plainly enough for her to know what was needed, though she could get no response to her agitated questioning. She called Dr. Browne up at once, and sent him flying. Poor Mrs. Flaherty, meanwhile, had sunk back, almost spent with her painful exertion, thinking in her desolation,
And finally they had traced it to its beginnings in an unsavory local politician, Flaherty by name, who was powerful in his own district and therefore had influence in his party organization. And Flaherty, they had discovered, had been well rewarded for efficient work in engineering the matter and inspiring those above him to suggest and secure the appointment.
He flung Dan Hicks at Jack Flaherty; as they collided he rushed in and dealt each of them a powerful poke. However, Messrs. Hicks and Flaherty were sizeable persons and while, individually, they were no match for the tremendous Gibney, nevertheless what they lacked in horsepower they made up in pugnacity and the salt sea seldom breeds a craven.
"Out to sea, of course," Flaherty bellowed. "He'll stand off until the fog lifts and then come ramping in as proud as Lucifer and look amazed when we send him in a bill." "Bill!" Hicks' voice dripped with sarcasm. "The Red Stack Company will libel him, and if the old man doesn't, me an' my crew will." "I'll bet a ripe peach he's a Jap, with a scoundrelly white skipper and white mates.
"Flaherty," he said, "I think you're a liar." "The same to you and many of them," Flaherty replied, not a whit abashed. "You said she was an eight thousand ton tramp." "I never went so far as to say I'd been aboard her on trial trip, though and I did cut down her tonnage, showin' I got the fragments of a conscience left," Hicks defended himself.
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