The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-14
CHARLES O'MAlLEY
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euileu Wy Lucy. AS Hammersley
read the letter his face grew pale and
he said sternly: Il Mr., O.Mal-
ley, that you are aware OF the CON
tents Of this letter?' T am in COM
pIete ignorance Of them.' replied
Charles. Indeed. sir, then perhaps
| you will tell me that your very sue
cess is a secret to YOU" 4 really
that the pastilne is an amusing one to
interfere where the affections Of
others are concerned. I have heard
of You, sir. Your at Lisbon
IS known to me. and though Captain
IreVylli;tn may bear stop
cried Charles, "you have said quite
enough, sir, to convince me Of what
your object was in seeking me today.
You shall not be disappointed" The
captain thank ed him for his quick
ness Of apprehension and left.
Charles was about to seek out Fred
Powers, who had rejoined, when that
young man entered. He had just
seen Hammersley and learned some
thing of the interview. He listened
to Charles story OF it. What does
he mean about that Lisbon ~business?"
asked O'Malley. Well" replied
Powers. 1t seems that he has heard
some foolish account Of your having
made a foolish speech about your sue
cessful rivalry Of him with Lucy Dash
"oo' IL iCid1iu- COllc one has DetIl
good natured enough to tell him.
But [ never did-it is false cried
OsMalley. well. then he has been
duped. Leave all to ne promise not
to leave your quarters TIL | return"
Before Powers returned, Charles
had another caller, Captain Trevyllian,
who came with : challenge from Ham
mersley. Il shall certainly not meet
Captain Hammersley until | know
upon what grounds said O'MaIley.
Charles ~pfeceDtor, the Count Con
sidine. would have had q stroke Of
apoplexy IA he heard this. But"
continued Charles, with Captain
Hammersley | am conscious Of no
quarrel. Still there are PENSIONS most
rigidly scrupulous for their friends
honor who are little disposed to re-
gard their own You mistake me-"
cried T%reyyllian. Il haze taken an
oath never to send a challenge" but
will not decline?" Certainly not"
O'Malley named Powers as his friend
and Trevyllian named Sir Harry Beau
fort as his. The gentle youth was to
have his duel after all. While o'Mal-
ley was examining his duelling pistols,
Considine's last gift to him upon leaN-
ing homo. an orderly brought MIN
an order to depart hmm ediateiy for
Alcantara as bearer Of dispatches.
Here was a nice fix: with one. pos
sibly two, dueIs on his hands he must
depart at once.
He wrote a few lines to Powers to
explain, and leaping p his horse
set out. Scarcely had he done SD when
Powers passed him. also mounted, and
said: All right, Charley, you can go
! safely" This nuieted his perturbed
feelings and he felt that the matter of
killing Trevyllian or Hammersley, or
both, could wait upon the ~exigencies
of the service. O'Malley galloped to
the front with his dispatches, was de-
tanned a while on duty there, and,
as usual, reaped abundant laurels from
the fields Of war. Sir Arthur Welles-
ley also went to the front, and be-
tween him and Charles they made
things mighty uncomfortable for the
F~'renchmen.
O'Malley had a servant with him.
one Mickey Free, whom q taken
from his ancestral seat at Castle
O'Malley. and Mickey was q bit Of q
wag, highly amusing to everybody.
Once when Charles vas ordered to
| make a report OF an ~eInent Tor
| the Commander-in-Chief, who had
been promoted to be Lord Wellington,
| hickey, being left to place the report
in covers and forward it, sent by
mistake to Lord wellington a letter
| which he had written to his old aunt
in ireland and Forwarded the re
| port to the aforesaid old aunt. This
| mistake caused O'Malley some annoy
| ance at the time, but the whole army
fairly roared over the Q k and the
stern Wellington himself actually
smiled and forgave Charles ana
Mickey.
But O'Ma1ley's pleasant occupation
OF annihilating the FrencnInen was
Interrupted by q letter received from
an old friend. Major O'Shaughnessy.
telling him that Fred Powers had
fought Trevyllian in his stead ana
| had been wounded in the hiD and that
ptopIe were talking very hardly Of the
Young hero, saving that he must come
back and fight TreVy1lian himself.
At once charles got leave and started
for Placentia. where ne hoped to lind
Trevyllian. After some preilmlnarles
the meeting was