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"Now tell me the story," I said "Have you done

murder? Is the offense treasonable?"

"It was a tenants' row in Galway, and I smashed a

constable I smashed him pretty hard, I dare say, from

the row they kicked up in the newspapers I lay low

for a couple of weeks, caught a boat to Queenstown, and

here I a in irons"

"You were certainly born to be hanged, Larry You'd

better stay in America There's more room here than

anywhere else, and it's not easy to kidnap a man in

America and carry him off"

"Possibly not; and yet the situation isn't wholly tranquil,"

he said, transfixing a bit of poentleht

-at the table with four-he's next the lady in pink

It may interest you to know that he's the British

consul"

"Interesting, but not important You don't for a

for me? Not at all But he undoubtedly

haswhile I was talking to you in the

bank Later on I had the pleasure of trailing hiht up at the British

consul's office Thanks; no more of the fish Let us

banish care I wasn't born to be hanged; and as I'm a

political offender, I doubt whether I can be deported if

they lay hands on

it up in his sli of your own immediate present