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At length he himself came forward, and, after wiping away a few bitter tears from his cheeks, he said "Gentlemen, I care little about the money I lost, nor about who took it let it go as for me, I won't miss it; but there is one thing that cuts me to the heart I'm spakin' about the misfortune that was brought, or near bein' brought, upon this honest an' generous-hearted young man, Bryan M'Mahon, through manes of a black plot that was got up against him I'm spakin' of the Still that was found on his farm of Ahadarra.
"He has as much notion," thought Bryan, "of troubling his head about me or my memorial, as I have for standin' candidate for the county. D n them all! they think of nobody but themselves!" Ahadarra not in for it Bryan's Vote.
Can no one prevail on that obstinate scoundrel, the Ahadarra man what do ye call, him? M'Master M'Manus -M' eh?" "M'Mahon," replied Fethertonge, "I fear not; but, at all events, we must try him again. Vote or not, however, we shall soon clear him out of Ahadarra we shall punish his insolence for daring to withhold his vote; for, as sure as my name is Fethertonge, out he goes.
Clinton consequently left his horse in the care of two soldiers on a bit of green meadow by the side of Ahadarra Lough a small tarn or mountain lake about two hundred yards in diameter. They then pushed up a long round swelling hill, on the other side of which was a considerable stretch of cultivated land with Bryan M'Mahon's new and improved houses at the head of it.
"Sir, I have had the honor of reading your communication in favor of Bryan M'Mahon, of Ahadarra, and of submitting that and his own memorial to the Commissioners of Excise, who, after maturely weighing the circumstances, and taking into consideration the excellent character which memoralist has received at your hands, have been pleased to reduce the fine originally imposed upon him to the sum of fifty pounds.
"Nothing particular from Ahadarra," replied the son, "but our good-natured friend, Jemmy Burke, had his house broken open and robbed the night before last." "Wurrah deheelish" exclaimed his mother, "no, he hadn't!" "Well, mother," replied Bryan, laughing, "maybe not. I'm afeard it's too true though." "An' how much did he lose?" asked his father. "Between seventy and eighty pounds," said Bryan.
"Indeed!" exclaimed both; and as they spoke, each cast a look of inquiry at the other. "What could bring them to Ahadarra, gentlemen?" asked Finigan, in a tone of voice which rendered it a nice point to determine whether it was a simple love of knowledge that induced him to put the question, or some other motive that might have lain within a kind of ironical gravity that accompanied it.
On reaching the hall-door, M'Mahon inquired from the servant who appeared, if he could see Mr. Chevydale. "I'm afraid not," said the servant, "but I will see; what's your name?" "Bryan M'Mahon, of Ahadarra, one of his tenants." The servant returned to him in a few moments, and said, "Yes, he will see you; follow me."
"So shall 'the accomplished. Clinton and I shall honor that lugubrious ceremony with our presence; but as respecting the clodhopper himself, meaning thereby Bryan of Ahadarra, he is provided for. What an unlucky thought to enter into the old fellow's noddle! However, non constat, as Finigan would say, time will develop."
"Ay, fifty," returned his companion, resuming his suspicious looks; "but no matther, any way you must only plaise yerself 'tis all the shame to me." "Ahadarra it must be then," said the other, "and that ends it." "Vary well, den, Ahadarra let her be," said Ted, and the conversation on this subject dropped. The smuggler's supper now made it's appearance.
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