The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-01-26
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SIlN6TcO WH0u ne, lOOK0u up dI Lie PAR.
tition.
1t was this man who first spoke.
"You have taken all precautions,
Maurice?"
Eyes; and you're as safe here as it
you were in-Heaven."
I'VE weren't safe in Dublin, so l
changed h venue, for you know what
an accident means to us. And now. be-
fore we begin our business, I must hear
from Sweeney's lips if the news he sen
me is true"
"Yes," said the broad-shouldered
man who sat with his back to me
Eyes! I've found him." and, short and
simple as his answer was, it seemed
like a spark that set off the evil nature
of Maurice D'Orville and made it blaze
up within him till the nan looked like
some. f1end filled with the lust Of slaug-
ter.
For a second or two he made no re-
ply. Then, as he spoke, he stretched
out his hand and gripped the others.
81 knew it would come he said.
Let fools pirate about vengeance be-
longing to the Lord. It's mine now, or
it will be soon, and it will be all the
sweeter that it comes so late. It's mel
lowed with keeping, but it's mine,
mine! Where is he; and what is he
doing?'
Hes in Fiji, owner and captain of
on. of the boats that runs betwixt the
islands. You can get at him that aisy
that, sure, twill scarcely be any credit
to kill him!"
pardon me, Maurice, but hadn't we
better, settle the most important bust
ness first?" said the man with the wry
nose.
Eyes; but you must remember, Mac,
hat this company was started by me,
for the purpose of gratifying my pri-
vate revenge" said D'Orville. II have
added the wrongs of my country to my
own, and we have drawn together a
band Of men that will go on striking
terror into the hearts of those who are
grinding life and enterprise out of Ire
land. I'll put aside private matters,
however, and I'll tell you the campaign
I propose to open. Here, first of all, Is
a list of the men to be attacked. We
must have done with small people.
James and Field were we'll enough to
begin with, and they served u pur-
pose. Now we must fly higher. List
emf and then he read the James of
some of the most prominent politicians
of the day, with running comments on
the deeds of the persons mentioned
deeds that, in the speakers opinion,
made the doors fit and proper objects
upon which to wreak vengeance.
And then followed a long discussion
as to ways and means. This one was
to be quietly slain in his room at night;
a second to be publicly executed" a
third to be killed with a bomb; and so
on and so forth, until matters had been
arranged in such a way that, II the
| plots succeeded, Her Majesty would. In
a short space of time be bereft of her
ablest advisers, and Liberty's car, as
these patriots phrased it, be driven for
ward over the bodies of men who were
devoting their time and talents to the
good. of their country.
I almost forgot my private wrongs IN
the feelings of indignation that surged
| through me when I heard these un-
known, uninfiuential wretches calmly
and coolly discussing the murder OF
| those so im~measurably their superiors,
| though there was sweet comfort in the
| reflection that Providence had given us
so fair a chance Of bringing their mis-
| deeds home to them.
Courtney was the only n who took
no part in the discussion, and it was
evident from the way in which he
shifted about in his chair, and from the
| expression of his face, that he was
screwing up his courage to make that
protest of which he had talked in his
s%oliloquey. But is was clear. too, that
it was one thing to come to such a re-
~~I,,o. rxvI~ra HA xvvo q hath onookor and
audience. and quite another to put it
into effect when face to face with men
whom he had so much reason to dread,
and into whose fiendish schemes he
had been drawn by the wiles Of his rel
alive. ~
At last there was a pause in the
gruesome talk, and C~ourtney's chance
came IL he would but take 1t. I could
see him quite plainly, and I noted that
he made two or three distinct efforts
before speech came to him.
Look here. Maurice he said, at
last, land you other men, too! I Joined
| this party to get fair play for ireland.
I know nothing about private revenge
and I don't want to. I've spent my
money freely, and I have a right to
speak, and I say you won't get justice
this way. What good will it do IL you
murder half the people in England?
The other half will only be more bitter.
See! Don't reckon on me to have a
hand in any of these assassinations!
Aye! it's not a nice word, Maurice. but
1t fits what you're going to do. Never
a bit do I care, MacDunnett, IL you kill
me, and you look black enough to do
it, and SO do you, Jim insolvency.
you fools!s Can't You zee that Maui
rice has you all for puppets? Hes
sending you, here, there and every
where to find somebody he wants to
kill, and all this philandering about
Lord this and Mister that is his way
Of making you do what he wants. I
tell you that from tonight I've done
with you I can't betray you, for, even
lif my conscience would let me. I've
gone too deep In the mire to get clear
with my life. You may do your own
evil work in your own evil way"
While he was speaking the other men
had drawn apart from him, and now
they stood In one corner and whispered
to each other in such low tones that It
was impossible to catch what they
were caying.
8,s CHATTER x.
One Of the Thirteen.
Anguish need scarcely have advised
me "a lie quiet for some time after the
mnsestins w. over. since y va almost
physically Sinlposstbi4 Tor ne 70 move.
AGH%H4E