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"Hurry up out of that," com- manded the sergeant.
*
He tugged the sheet a little. In the dim light hand
theface of Fenty Linihan was pale and composed. John Joe's scream of terror rent tha air.
The sergeant removed his hat and crossed himself, All the Guards removed their hata and crossed themselves: While they were thus engaged Matt Kerrigan escaped, He could be heard falling over the loose stone wall and calling upon God and all the saints. In the extremity of his fear. But nobody bothered about him. It was a bad moment for the sergeant, and John Joe lay in a dead faint at his feet.
“I was full süre," he said apolo- getically to the Guards; "that there. was something unlawful about those men. They hadn't the demeanour of honest grief at all."!
**One of the Guards said patronis-] ingly that you could never tell,, so you couldn't, but it was a bad mis- take all the same.
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Angered by this, the sergeant replied that, mistake or no mistake, the potheen search would be carried through: The law was the law. As to the interrupted funeral, he would make that right with the people of) the island before he left. If the! Guards minded their own business and did what they were told it the set of six, send your solutions, with the six pictures, and accom- panied with your full name and address, to the Code Editor, China would be better for them than Mask You may be one of the six lucky winners of two tickets for criticising their superiors.
the Central Théatre.
At this point John Joe revived and sat up. The sergeant was
lay..
Three more pictures will follow this; when you have completed
polite and concerned. He explained overhead might have been a woman one accord they stopped dead in to John Joe that, while he was overkeening. The short, quick cough of their tracks, frozen with horror at whelmed with sorrow for the trou-a mountain sheep had a horrible the sight they saw, at the squads. ble he had caused, the law was the human sound. The Guards, were they heard.
When they had searched
A dim, white thing, rising out of reative. Lenihan's house they would see to
It was bad enough to go opening the coffin, waved wide, wing-like it that the funeral was continued: a dead man's coffin in the middle of arms to and fro in the darkness; a with rightful dignity and propriety. the road, but it was worse to ran murmured and moaned. With yelpa In the meantime a couple of Guards sack his house-his empty, desert-of terror, all discipline forgotten, would wait with John Joe if heed little house. They had no light voice, unearthly and bloodcurdling but the ray of one feeble electric (they dropped their burdens and fled, by its torch, and the place was full of un-the sergeant leading by a good worked explained shadows. It was small head. Not till they reached the niament consolation to find so rich a booty safety and sanity of the steamer of horror he could not believe that The sergeant, tried to be jocular did they cease to run. Festy was as dead as he looked about it. Though he was a strict As for Festy, he stayed where he Something queer had happened. If man at the best of times, he relaxed was. It was comfortable aftting! the Guards left him alone he would so far as to open one of the jar there in the sugar boxes. He wrap- try to get to the bottom of it.
eaying, with a thin laugh, that It ped the sheet a little more closely
liked.
John Joo's mind, rested spell of unconsciousness, rapidly. After the first
Maybe all the bother had gut was only their duty to make sure it about his head and shoulders to Festy into some kind of a trance. was the real stuff. The drink went keep out the night air. Sometimes He assured the sergeant. It didn't round in a heavy silence. The men he dozed, sometimes, he sang. He matter a bit about anyone staying swallowed it as if it had been so was very happy. In the early hours: along with him. He would reat much medicine.
of the morningi. when a half-moon. himself there until they returned.
They crept out of the house in a came up over the mountain, he saw, After a little more argument and shamefaced way, carrying the malt, the jars of potheen lying in the polite concern the sergeant gather such parts of the still as were mov-ditch. He climbed over the side of B.L. Aptar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ed his six Guards together and went able, and the dozen jars of patheen, bis strange bed. 1st and 2nd class passengers.
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Festy opened one eye and said, thickly:
"Hell! Am. I dead? I'm as sick!
as a dog from, the awful dream I was having. Out on a rough sea I was, in a little bit of a curragh, and the insides heaving out of me." "It must be the way the boys were swinging ye up and down and
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. "I'm no bag of malt," Festy
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I throttle you." Festy made a lur- IF
ching attempt to get out of the coffin, but it was too much for him. He sank down and relapsed into ailence,
For
"Festy!" John Joe pleaded. the love of God, don't go to sleep again. The Guards are coming for you in a minute. They're going to bury you, so they are.”
Festy snored...
And now John Joe was finished.
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him at this new turn in the terrible events of the evening. Let Fasty bleep on, so.. Let the Guards bury him. John Joe had done all he could for the wretched old man. He had almost to gaol for him. But now he wasn't going to gaoly Tõrvanyond Home
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