Oh, Katy! Think how you'd feel if some one
had siparated you and Dolan before you'd iver been togither!"
Katie Dolan gathered her sister into her arms. "You poor lamb," she
wailed. "I've known ivery word of this for fiftane years, and if
I'd had the laste idea 'twas so, I'd a busted Jimmy Malone to
smithereens before it iver happened!"
"I won't go back! I won't go back!" raved Mary.
"I guess you won't go back," cried Katy, patting every available
spot on Mary, or making dashes at her own eyes to stop the flow of
tears. "I guess you won't go back! You'll stay right here with me.
I've always wanted you! I always said I'd love to have you! I've
told thim from the start there was something wrong out there! I've
ixpicted you ivry day for years, and I niver was so surprised in
all me life as whin you came! Now, don't you shed another tear. The
Lord knows this is enough, for anybody. None at all would be too
many for Jimmy Malone. You get right into bid, and I'll make you a
cup of rid-pipper tay to take the chill out of you. And if Jimmy
Malone comes around this house I'll lav him out with the poker, and
if Dannie Micnoun comes saft-saddering after him I'll stritch him
out too; yis, and if Dolan's got anything to say, he can take his
midicine like the rist. The min are all of a pace anyhow! I've
always said it! If I wouldn't like to get me fingers on that
haythen; never goin' to confission, spindin' ivrything on himself
you naded for dacent livin'! Lit him come! Just lit him come!"
Thus forestalled with knowledge, and overwhelmed with kindness,
Mary Malone cuddled up in bed and sobbed herself to sleep, and Katy
Dolan assured her, as long as she was conscious, that she always
had known it, and if Jimmy Malone came near, she had the poker ready.
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