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196 WILLY BURKE; OR,
were walking after you and saw you receive the blow. The
villain ran off down the alley as soon as he had dealt the
blow, whereupon they came up ; and rinding it was you,
they came here with the men who brought you home".
u Ha !" said Weimar, as a gleam of his fierce anger
shot from his eye—
" ha ! I know— I know—dat rascal
Wilson—ay, he said he 'd remember, and so he did. But
I '11 have him hanged for dis—dat is, you will, Talbot, if
I die. I wouldn't rest in peace if dat fellow wasn't punished
for his crimes. Curses on him, de black villain".
" For mercy's sake, Weimar", interposed Talbot, " do
not speak so you will certainly do yourself harm ; ; and
it was very wrong of me to enter into conversation with
you on so exciting a
value my friendship :
subject. Not a word now, as
hush, here 's the doctor".
you
But just at the moment Father O'Hara was announced,
and Weimar exclaimed joyfully— " Oh, den, doctor, you
don't speak one word. Just leave me wit de priest—de
doctor of my soul : after he do his part, den I listen to
you, and do what you tell me".
" My dear Mr. Talbot 1
', said the priest, as he warmly
shook hands with that gentleman, " this is a truly melancholy
affair ; but yet see how the Lord draweth good from
what appears to us evil. Had Mr. Weimar no previous
thoughts of becoming a Catholic ?"
" Oh, yes, yes !" exclaimed the patient ;
" I read great
many Cat'lic books, and I pray to God to show me de
trut, and den I begin to find out dat all de old notions I
had about your religion, and about the priests, was
wrong— all wrong. But all de time I couldn't bring myself
to say I 'd be a Cat'lic, or go to confession—dat I
couldn't do, I said—and den I was very much angry with