“Not by a dummed site sir” ses I, gitting turribly inraged wid the site
of the thray strapping men pursooing the puir yung luving harted
crachures. “They’ve got a good start of that desateful Larry Mulvaney,
and Mr. Harry himsilf has got the wheel.”
Mr. Wolley let out a larf of scorn.
“Boys” ses he, “me new carbureater arrived yistiday. We’ll ovetake that
Frinch car in harf an our.”
Wid that they all wint for the barn, got out the car and in there
exsitemint let me climb in wid them also.
Well, we wint spinning at a turrible speed along the auld Boston Post
Road but never a site did we get of the Dudley Frinch car.
The roads was turrible for the stiddy rains of the larst week do be
cutting it up into ditches, and manny a time me hart was in me mouth
feering we’d be going into the gutter. The nite was pitch dark and the
ilictrick lites over harf the road being out wid the lightning.
As we cam whissing along over a wild and loansum cuntry we herd a
straynge sownd, like samewan hollering for hilp, and then we seen a lite
ahed. We roon up beside it and there in the road was anuther masheen. It
was so dark we cud not see the gintleman but whin I herd his voyce I guv
a start.
“Can you tak me as far as New Rosette” ses he. “I’m soaking wet and
cold” ses he, “and me dammed man don’t understand the meckaneesm of this
masheen.”
“Climb in” ses Mr. Wolley gruffly, and he got in at the back.
We started aff again, and by and by we cam at last to New Rosette. We
wint feeling our way arownd the strates, wid the rain beeting doon upon
our lether top and the thoonder and lightning litting out a crack avery
wanse in a wile.
Thin suddintly we cam to a stop. Theres a gas lite burning in the
strate, and setting back a bit from the road on a lumpy bit of lon I
seen what looked like a church and at its very dure indade there stud
the grate Frinch ortermobile of Mr. Dudley. But neyther Miss Claire or
Mr. Harry was inside it. The gintleman guv a gront, and thin ses he:
“Excuse me sir, allow me to get out here.”
Mr. Wolley has turned aboot, and now he leened over the back of the seet
and stuck his face close up to his gest’s. Then at wanse they recknised
aich other. The boys too soospicted the truth at wanse. Mr. Dudley
himself was for joomping clane out of the masheen, but Mr. John opened
the dure wid dignuty, and perlitely hilped him to alite.
We wint all walking up the path to the choorch, and we cud see theres a
bit of lite burning inside. We wint into the holy place, which is all
very still and quiet wid only a bit of dim lite up near the altar, but
under the lite we sor the luvvers, neeling side be side.
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