“She told me she had some money av her own with which she could pay her way back to th’ Unoited Shtates.”
“Yes, yes!”
“All she wanted wur to get away widout her fayther ur th’ lord knowin’ a thing about it.”
“And you aided her?”
“Me b’y, she didn’t know how to do th’ thrick, an’ so I was afther securin’ passage fer her on a steamer bound fer San Francisco.”
“And did you—were you able to get her away? Did she get on board without being stopped?”
Barney nodded.
“She has an aunt in Sacramento, an’ she said she would be all roight av she could rache thot lady.”
“In Sacramento? And she is there now? You aided her in getting to her aunt? Barney, you should have a gold medal!”
“Waid a bit, me laddibuck; you’re gettin’ ahid av me shtory. Oi got her onto th’ stamer, an’ Oi took passage on th’ same craft. As Oi didn’t have money to burrun, Oi come in th’ sicond cabin, whoile she came firrust class. All th’ same Oi found a chance now and thin to chat wid her. She told me all about her aunt. She said her aunt could make th’ fayther av her give up th’ skame to marry her off to the Inglish lord.”