Longarm and the Molly Maguires by Evans Tabor

Author:Evans, Tabor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Longarm (Fictitious character)
Publisher: New York : Jove Pub.
Published: 1979-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

long do you think it'll take the army to move in if there's more trouble?"

"Not long. Once the M.P.s arrive, we'll have a bloody mess up there, too. The man in command is a fool, and if anyone so much as throws a rock at one of his toy soldiers—"

"There's your answer, then," Mahoney said, slapping the table with his hand. "The MoUies want martial law."

"But why? I just got through saying it will be a bloody mess!"

"You should have been in Pennsylvania durin' the riots. A grand brawl it was, with women scxeamin' and the skies red over shantytown while the hills echoed to the rattle of the guns."

"Damn it. That's crazy."

"Faith, how many times do we have to tell you? The Mollies are crazy. They say when a lad first picks up a gun, he's shakin' hands with the diwel. Some of our woild lads from the auld country have been out on the rebel's path since before the potato failure. Many have grown to manhood in the game they learned from their fathers. The only game they know."

"But damn it. President Hayes ain't Queen Victoria! What in thunder do they want with a rebellion against the U.S. Army?"

Mahoney laughed a bit sadly, and explained, "They tell this tale of an Irish seaman, washed to a strange shore after a shipwreck. He comes to his senses to see a black man standing near him in a grass skirt. So the mick looks up and says, T can see you're a bloody cannibal, so I'll fight you man to man!'"

Longarm said, "Come on, nobody's mistreated anyone like that out here!"

But Mahoney said, "I ain't finished. The native tells the shipwrecked Irishman he's not a cannibal a'tall a'tall, but a dacent Christian converted by the missionaries. So the mick says, 'A Protestant you are, are you? Well, I'll fight you man to man!' But the native

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