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The only particular incident which amused Mac was watching a trio of Greek sailors tormenting a terrified Egyptian by holding him by the legs upside down over a ship's side, as if intending to drop him into the water. It was not Mac's luck to disembark immediately on berthing, for his squadron were detailed to clean up the ship after all the men and horses had gone ashore.
If the next two hours were as slow in passing, to MacRae and Lyn, as they seemed to me, the two of them had time to dissect and discuss the hopes and fears and errors of their whole existence, and formulate a new philosophy of life. Piegan broke a long silence to remark sagely that if Mac was putting in all this time talking to that "yaller-headed fairy," he was a plumb good stayer.
The porter would not tell, and Mac was strangely reticent, though his smile was one to make a fellow exceedingly sure something out of the ordinary had befallen. It was not until I was having breakfast in Providence that I learned the true cause of Rube's conduct, and Milly confided it to me, insisting on strict confidence. "I promised not to tell," she said. "Now you promise you'll never tell."
Mac Tavish and Rellihan, by virtue of jobs and natures, were foes, but their team-work in behalf of the interests of the Morrison was comprehensively perfect. "What's the matter with your brains, Rellihan?" demanded the colonel, hotly. "I don't kape stirring 'em up to ask 'em, seeing that they're resting aisy," returned the policeman, smiling placidly.
"You're all in, old man. Y'u hadn't ought to have ridden, even though y'u did skin us all to a finish." "Nonsense, Mac. First place goes to y'u or or Jack Holloway." "Not unless the judges are blind." But Bannister's prediction proved true.
When the hour of ten had pealed from the neighbouring steeple Mac- Guffog came prepared with a small dark lantern.
But those small difficulties were duly overcome, and now, twenty minutes before the appointed hour, an extremely gorgeous and majestic person presented Mac with the Serene invitation. Now, he had considered it an extravagance to arise sufficiently early to permit of his being shaved before the parade.
But Mac Strann sprang after him and reached. His whole body seemed to stretch like an elastic thing, and his arm grew longer. The hand fastened on the back of Langley, plucked him up, and jammed him against the wall. Haw-Haw crumpled to the floor. He gasped: "It weren't me, Mac. For Gawd's sake, it weren't me!" His face was a study.
McDonald whispered that he thought the one in the south end might be the biggest, and he might be feeding, and the two others might be young bulls, and they might be keeping away because they were afraid of the big one. This seemed reasonable; and I said that I was going to crawl around the meadow to the south end. 'Keep near a tree, says Mac; and I started.
Letters shall forthwith fly into Madrid To tell the King the storyes of Two Brothers, Worthy the Courtiers reading. Lovers, take hands: Hymen & gentle faeryes strew your way: Our Sessions turnes into a Bridall day. All. Fare thee well, Englishman. Pike. I will ring peales of prayers of you all, My Lords & noble Dons. Mac.
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