Dan laid a hand on his arm and together
they went into the cottage.
"'Twas this way sir," said McGowan, "I was sayin' to Debby and Denny here
at dinner what a danged fine man I took ye for after workin' wid ye all
mornin' in the garden, an' then she up an' tells me 'bout you fixin' up
the mortgage fer them an' how they niver could find out how you fixed it
with the Judge. 'The mortgage' says I, 'what mortgage is that, Debby?'
'The mortgage on the place, of course,' says she. 'Don't you mind, I was
tellin' you 'bout it when ye was here before?' 'Do I mind' says I, 'I
should think I did,' and wid that it all come out sir, and this is the
way of it.
"When I come from Colorado that time Jack was killed I found Debby here,
widout even money enough to pay for a mass, to say nothin' of the
buryin', bein' as they had put iverythin' into the little place here,
d'ye see? Well I had a run o' luck the week before, which is neither
here nor there, but I had money. I knowed from experience that it
wouldn't shtay by me long anyway, an' so I thought I'd kinda fix things
up fer Debby an' the kid here, while I could, d'ye see?
"Well when 'twas all over, I paid the undertaker's bills an' iverythin'
like that, an' then the very day I left I went to that damn thief,
beggin' your pardon, an' paid off that mortgage in good, hard cash.
Explainin' to him, d'ye see, that I wanted the papers all fixed up
straight and clear and turned over to Debby here, as a kind of a
surprise, d'ye see, after I was gone an' she would be feelin'
down-hearted bein' left by her man and me besides.
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