'What is this,' he demanded of his son.
'We are both leaveen the place.'
The villain was simply struck dumb with amazement. When he did speak, he asked,
'Where is Murfrey?'
'We just have been disableen him.'
'Where are my mother and Poll?'
'We have just done gaggeen them.'
'Where is Nancy; where is the young lady?'
'They are cleareen out of the swamp.'
'Hell and—' he did not finish his pious ejaculation, but felt for his pistol. It was not there; and he gave a cry like a baulked lion.