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The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector

CHAPTER IX
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If she was, however, and became a consenting party to the proposal, then I say now, as I said before, you have no right to interfere in the business." "What keeps him out so late at night?
I mean occasionally.

He is out two or three nights every week until twelve or one o'clock.

Now, you know, in the present state of the country, that it is not safe.
_Shawn-na-Middogue_ and such scoundrels are abroad, and they might put a bullet through him some night or other.
"He is not at all afraid on that score," replied Charles; "he never goes out in the evening without a case of pistols freshly loaded." "Well, but it, is wrong to subject himself to danger.

Where is he gone now ?" "He and Barney Casey have gone out to course; I think they went up towards the mountains." Such was the fact.

Harry was quite enamoured of sport, and, finding dogs, guns, and fishing-rods ready to his hand, he became a regular sportsman--a pursuit in which he found Barney a very able and intelligent assistant, inasmuch as he knew the country, and every spot where game of every description was to be had.


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