The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-11
q Go on, you privileged vagabond."

" Go on, you privileged vagabond."
but give us pull to keep the life in u.s. says
he, wiping the perspiration off his face, and
Offering at the bottle
$50 I'm gxDAtly afraid, Bill, that it's fooling
yon were To-day, and not fowling,' says I,
turning down the neck of the bottle, to show
him that the brandy was gone, like the snow
that was last year.
looking as blank as catchpole, when he finds
the nest warm and the bird gone-he had him
self a decayea sea gull in his bag.
80 Shoot didn't myself and Neddy shoot the
contents of the basket down our throats, as
intended; and faith pleasant shooting it was
1t would have done your heart good, Sir
John, to hear how he ramped and cursed then.
Why, he nearly came up to q trooper or q
governor in o rage. But he turned his tail to
Bob Coghlan's, without waiting for his dinner,
and wouldn't look at me- for year after"
CHAPTER XXI.
"Ha, ha, good. Charleyw exclaimed the
was worthy of you. would have given ten
pounds for q glance at his countenance, when
he found you had bilked him fairly. And now
your coast anecdote reminds me that you may,
perhaps, be able to answer o question had
proposed to ask"
The brandy and the story had, by this time,
inclined him to be confidential, to a limited
extent, with his good humored companion,
when q doubt struck him as to his trust
worthiness. But, after seconds pause, he
discarded it. resuming: eyes, Rorke, am
gong To ask you COnnuental question, Oe-
cause think you are not, inclined to betray
my confidence, and that, if you even were, you
dare not"
The grim smile passed across the baronet's
face, though somewhat softened in it's stern
ness, and he eyed the gauger searchingly, for
an instant before he put the question, DO you,
through yonr 90 .uaintance with the coast,
chance to EBS . 9ny one that would, just now,
convey a refractory girl secretly and securely
to tho north coast of France or Flanders, with
ont blabbing, Oh "
I'll; f,1 oc
he was, on land, well as by water, having
ascertained from the baronets answer to few
adroit questions, though asked with apparent
ly no aim, that the refractory girl was from
the neighborhood of Lough Cara and of the
prescribed creed, he came to tho conclusion
that it was Ellen. Lynch, against whom the
outrage was intended, aud he answered: !"
think, Sir John, know where there is at this
moment, and near at hand, Dutch skipper
that, have strong suspicious, has baked both
us and the revenue most successfully within
those three days, and who is, I think, man
that would answer your purpose completely"
Then bring him to me, while the mattesis
on my mind-promptly, ehW
81 Shall l send him to you at once, Sir John,
if find him 7"
AT once, sir, without moments delay, if
possible"
At his fastest pace did Charley forthwith re-
pair to Madden's, where he found Frank and
his young friend ensconced in the snug little
parlor. Taking the former aside, the good
natured gauger whispered rapidly to him Sir
y
Ellen was the intended victim. 81 thought
of you, fortunately" he concluded, and have
come at the top of my speed to send You to
him--but are you prepared to sail Immediate
Not, by heaven, until 1 have taken ven.
gean.e on the tyrant for his intended villainy' "
'"WheY! yon want to get strong lodgings
Journey over the seas than ever you bargained
| for that is, if little hemp shouldn't save you
the trouble. You would not commit murder
and where would sou be five minutes afte,
giving Sir John an open provocationf and
then who would your cousin have for pro-
| tector!"
"You are right. sir, 7 suppose, and we owe
| more than once. But what course am te
! steer, then7" ~.
"Has Sir John much acquaintance with you
person features ~
81 have been in his presence, to my recollec
ton, but three times in my life and he hai
not set eyes ut all on me, I think, for the las
seven Of eight years"
danger in the world of his discovering you, a
besides the change in your complexion, VOL
look at least ten years beyond your time; ant
take for the Dutch OF 6erman-for the matte
| of that don't know but Irish would answe
very we'll. So you must proceed instantly t.
"No. no, Frank" observed his companion
s at alb
"You must not bring your little skipjaok- Q
a comrade with you, at any rate" observed
Rorke, with lau Oh, cor by the bones of St
Ruth, the voice of the whpper snapper woul'
! soon show the baronet that petticoats woul'
beflt him batter than a sailors trousers, pert a
he looks in them; and this might stir up, sus
picion of NY bold captain that would, perhaps
turn ous not pleasantly But let her or hi'
(If she likes it betterl come with meto Mrs
Korke, till you return"
Crank, venture not at all"
"But for Ellen's sake, dear
"WeH, Frank, if you must go, go too.
"Then in Gods name, if she must go, max
, her. at all events. keep her mouth as close a
| a niser's pocket, n word might ruin all; an
, there's not a minute more to be lost, lest SON
chance visitor should call at the castle and ol
r purtunity be lost for ever-one word NOR
/ don't he too eager to close the terms, but max
v a hard bargain for the voyage. Aud remembe
. win or lose, that you, and all connected wit
. YOU will always have warm and wllliH
d friend in Charley Rorke, as far as the tim'
n will allow him to DO SUCH God send you gu
d cess p.
= CTo be continuedD
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