"
"An' what if he's discovered now?"
"Fwhat?--fwhy so much the worsher for you an' me: he's ginerous now an'
den, anyway; but a great rogue afther all, fwher so high a hid as he
carries."
"If I don't mistake," proceeded Hogan, "either himself or his family,
anyhow, will be talked of before this time to-morrow."
"Eh, Batt?" asked the other, who had changed his position and sat beside
him during this dialogue--"how is dhat now?"
"I don't rightly know--I can't say," replied Hogan, with a smile
murderously grim but knowing--"I'm not up; but the sportheen's a made
boy, I think."
"_Dher cheerna!_ you _are_ up," said Teddy, giving him a furious glance
as he spoke; "there must be no saycrits, I say."
"You're a blasted liar, I tell you--I am not, but I suspect--that's
all."
"What brought you up dhis night?" asked Teddy, suspiciously.
"Because I hard he was to come," replied his companion; "but whether or
not I'd be here."
"_Tha sha maigh_--it's right--may be so--shiss, it's all right, may be
so--well?"
Teddy, although he said it was all right, did not seem however to think
so. The furtive and suspicious glance which he gave Hogan from under his
red beetle brows should be seen in order to be understood.
"Well?" said Hogan, re-echoing him--"it is well; an' what is more, my
Kate is to be up here wid a pair o' geese to roast for us, for we must
make him comfortable.
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