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"Listen to me, my honest friend don't believe Fethertonge, nor don't rely on Chevydale, who will do nothing more nor less than the agent allows him. If you depend upon either or both, you are a ruined man, and I am very much afraid you are that already.
The reasonable terms proposed by Fethertonge were, however, such as old Tom M'Mahon could not with any prospect of independence encounter. Even this, however, was not to him the most depressing consideration.
"Let Cavanagh call upon me," he replied, "and if I can say anything to soften the old fellow, perhaps I will." "Thank you, uncle thank you I shall not forget this kindness." "Well, then," said his uncle, "I am going down to Fethertonge on a certain matter of business, you understand, and let me see why, if Cavanagh calls on me tomorrow about eleven, I shall see him at all events."
Peety, by the advice of Hogan's wife, called in Teddy Phat's " "What's that? Teddy Phats? Now, by the way, Harry, don't abuse poor Teddy. You will be surprised, Hal, when I tell you that he and I have played into each other's hands for years. Yes, my boy, and I can assure you that, owing to him, both Fethertonge and I were aware of Hycy's Burke's plot against M'Mahon long before he set it a-going.
Indeed the whole tenor of their dialogue, taken in at one view especially Fethertonge's intention of speaking to Tom M'Mahon upon the mysterious subject of Bryan's suspected delinquencies against the law so thoroughly satisfied him of the injustice he had rendered Fethertonge, that he was for a time silent.
"I am much obliged to you," said he, "I was already aware of it; but now that I have met you, M'Mahon, allow me to ask if you have not entrusted a memorial to the care of Mr. Chevydale, in order that it might be sent up strongly supported by him to the Board of Excise?" "I have," said Bryan, "and it has been sent, if I am to believe Mr. Fethertonge."
"I'm inclined to agree with you there," replied Bryan, "that looks like the truth; and even then I agree with you still that Fethertonge is at the bottom of it. Still how am I to act?" "In either case, Bryan, precisely as I said.
"So, uncle, now that you have been promoted to the Supervisorship, you abandon the farm; you abandon Ahadarra?" "Why, won't I be out of the district, you blockhead? and you persist in refusing it besides." "Most positively; but I always suspected that Fethertonge was a scoundrel, as his conduct in that very business with you was a proo hem, ahem."
"Now," he proceeded, "there's a document which proves Fethertonge, notwithstanding his knavery, to be an ass; otherwise he would have reduced it to ashes long ago; and, perhaps, after having turned it to his account, he would have done so, were it not that I secured it.
Faith had been wantonly and deliberately broken with him the solemn words of a dying man had been disregarded and, as Fethertonge had made him believe, by that son who had always professed to regard and honor his father's memory.
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