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They accordingly proceeded towards the court house, and on their way Hycy addressed him as follows: "Now, Bryan, in order to give your conduct an appearance of greater generosity, I will pretend to dissuade you against voting for Vanston, or, rather, I will endeavor, as it were, to get your vote for Chevydale.
"Very well," he exclaimed; "very well, indeed, so far. Harry, we must be on the alert, now the elections are approaching, and Chevydale will be stoutly opposed, it seems. We must work for him, and secure as many votes as we can. It is our interest to do so, Harry, and he will make it our interest besides." "Has principle nothing to do with it, sir?"
"But in the mean time," said Chevydale, "will you state the names of those who did commit the robbery?" "I will," she replied. "The whole truth, Nanny," exclaimed Kate. "It was Bat Hogan, then, that robbed Mr. Burke," she replied; "and and " "Out wid it," said Kate. "And who besides, my good girl?" inquired Vanston.
"I have reason to suspect," replied Chevydale, "that he is neither more nor less than feathering his own nest at the expense of myself and my tenantry. I cannot understand why he is so anxious to get the M'Mahons off the estate; a family unquestionably of great honesty, truth, and integrity, and who, I believe, have been on the property before it came into our possession at all.
"Ay, that's the devil of it; but at all events, Bryan, there is nothing got in this world without exertion and energy. Mr. Chevydale, the Member, is now at home: he has come down to canvass for the coming-election. I would recommend you to see him at once.
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."
"What, in God's name, am I to do, then?" asked Bryan, in a state of great and evident perplexity. "I shall tell you; go to an honest man I don't say, observe, that Chevydale is not honest; but he is weak and negligent, and altogether the slave and dupe of his agent.
Young Clinton, in the course of a few months, became agent to Chevydale, whose property soon gave proofs that kindness, good judgment, and upright principle were best calculated not only to improve it, but to place a landlord and his tenantry on that footing of mutual good-will and reciprocal interest upon which they should ever stand towards each other.
"About the leases, sir," replied M'Mahon, "to know when it would be convanient for you to sign them." Chevydale looked, from Bryan to the agent, and again from the agent to Bryan, as if anxious to understand what the allusion to leases meant. At this moment a servant entered, saying, "The horses are at the door, gentlemen."
Fethertonge looked at him with a face in which might be read a painful but friendly rebuke for persisting to speak, after the other had changed the subject. "I rather think Mr. Chevydale would prefer hearing it some other time, Bryan." "But you know the proverb, sir," said Bryan, smiling, "that there's no time like the present; besides it's only a word." "What is it?" asked the landlord.
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