“Very well; I'll provide the needful; let Philip call to me in a day or two.”
“Dat Ahadarra isn't so safe,” said Teddy. “Fwhy wouldn't you carry it on here?” and he accompanied the query with a piercing-glance as he spoke.
“Because,” replied Hycy, “I have been seen here too often already, and my name must not in any way be connected with your proceedings. This place, besides, is now too much known. It's best and safest to change our bob, Ted.”
“Dere's trewt in dhat, anyhow,” said the other, now evidently more satisfied as to Hycy's motive in changing. “But,” he added, “as you is now to schange, it 'ud be gooder to shange to some better place nor Ahadarra.”
“I know of none better or safer,” said Burke.
“Ay, fifty,” returned his companion, resuming his suspicious looks; “but no matther, any way you must only plaise yerself—'tis all the shame to me.”
“Ahadarra it must be then,” said the other, “and that ends it.”
“Vary well, den, Ahadarra let her be,” said Ted, and the conversation on this subject dropped.
The smuggler's supper now made it's appearance. The geese were beautifully done, and as Hycy's appetite had got a keen stimulus by his mountain walk, he rendered them ample justice.
“Trot,” said Teddy, “sich a walk as you had droo de mountains was enough to sharpen anybody's appetite.”