Excerpt: ... that I was all alone in that place, the rest having gone in search of you. And after that I thought it wasn't healthy for me around there." "I think you're a spy, Pat," she said coldly. "Divil a bit of it. Who says so? Don't you belave it!" "Why did you not stay with the rest of the men, then?" "Divil a wan of me can tell that same, now. I clean forget. I think I was scared out of me two wits. If I had been a long time wid yez, instid of bein' there only wan day, sure I'd have remained, so I would. But I'd been ...
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Excerpt: ... that I was all alone in that place, the rest having gone in search of you. And after that I thought it wasn't healthy for me around there." "I think you're a spy, Pat," she said coldly. "Divil a bit of it. Who says so? Don't you belave it!" "Why did you not stay with the rest of the men, then?" "Divil a wan of me can tell that same, now. I clean forget. I think I was scared out of me two wits. If I had been a long time wid yez, instid of bein' there only wan day, sure I'd have remained, so I would. But I'd been there so little that I thought it wasn't healthy for me. That's all." "What made you come back now?" Pg 163 "Sure I heard that ye'd escaped from your jailers, and I knowed that you'd be after protecting me. Didn't you tell me that I was all right? And, thinks I, if I can find 'em now, sure the quane will be after takin' care of me; and here I am." "When I heard that you had returned, I made up my mind to have you shot!" "Oh, glory be to gracious! Don't be after doin' that same, your honor! Faith, why should ye be after shootin' the likes of me? I ain't done nothin' at all." Patsy, with a perfect assumption of fright, fell upon his knees before the woman and raised his hands beseechingly to her. And for a moment she looked down upon him with cold contempt in her eyes. It was evident to Nick, who was watching the scene narrowly, that she was coldly calculating the chances of letting him live, and that a breath upon the scales either way would decide her. For a long time she remained in the same attitude, and then she raised her head and spoke to Handsome. "When one in my position is in any doubt," she said coldly, "there is only one thing to do, and that is to give myself, not the other person, the benefit of the doubt. That is what I have decided to do, Handsome. Take him away." "What shall I do with him?" "Take him back to the cabin where he was tied up, Pg 164 and tie him up again. To-night, when the fires are lit, we will convene a court...
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