One feature of the situation made him chuckle, and that was this:
The fiery lieutenant, intent first of all on his revenge, had
given first thought to the capture of the man who had made
mincemeat of his vanity and rendered him a possible subject of
ridicule to his fellow officers. So eager had he been to
accomplish this that he had failed as yet to notify his superiors
of what had happened, with the result that the captured guns had
been safely smuggled in and hidden. Bucky thought he could trust
O'Halloran to see that he did not stay long behind bars and
bolts, unless indeed the game went against that sanguine and most
cheerful plotter. In which event--well, that was a contingency
that would certainly prove embarrassing to the ranger. It might
indeed turn out to be a good deal more than embarrassing in the
end. The thing that he had done would bear a plain name if the
Megales faction won the day--and the punishment for it would be
easy to guess. But it was not of himself that O'Connor was
thinking. He had been in tight places before and squeezed safely
out. But his little friend, the one he loved better than his
life, must somehow be extricated, no matter how the cards fell.
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