I wish to know the exact circumstances--let me
see--(opening a large pocket book) I have this memorandum: the
child was carried off from his mother's bedside in broad daylight
by a nun accompanied by two priests and a large body of Irish: is
that a correct version?"
"Law, no, sir, it warn't quite like that," said Mrs. Ginx.
"We've 'ad so many on 'em that Ginx was for drownin' the
thirteenth"--
--The little man opened his eyes----
"An' he went and gave it away, sir," said she crying, "to a nun,
sir--ah! ah! ah!-- they won't let me see the darlin' now, sir--
ah! ah! ah! because I won't let Missis Spishyosir mark me with
the cross, sir, an' me with as fine a breast o' milk as ever was
for 'im, sir--ah! ah! ah! "
"Hem!" said the little man, "that's different from what I
understood."
He was quite honest, but who does not know how disappointing it
is to find a wrong you wish to redress is not so bad as you had
hoped?
However, it looked bad enough, and might be made worse. It was
the very case for the Protestant Detectoral Association.
"Would Mr. Ginx not join in an effort to recover his child?"
"No, sir; I should think not: he went an' gave it away."
"I know; but he is a Protestant?"
"I don't think he be much o' anything, sir.
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