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There and then came the great choice to M'Loughlin should he save the life of rivals, or leave them to be murdered by Indians? He sent Tom Mackay to the Umpqua, punished the robber Indians, secured the pilfered furs, and paid the American for them. Then came American missionaries overland the Lees and Whitman. Then came Wyeth, the trader and colonizer from Boston.
"Well now," said M'Loughlin, rising up, whilst his honest features were lit with indignation, "this joke or this impudence on your part, has gone far enough listen to me.
M'Loughlin, to withhold your rent." "You!" exclaimed Val, looking at him. "Yes!" he replied, walking over, and looking him sternly in the face. "If it were worth while to ask your name I would but I believe I know it already." "Perhaps not." "Well, perhaps not; and pray what may it be?" "I will tell you, sir," replied Hartley. "This gentleman is "
M'Loughlin, surely cannot be possible does he mean to assert that Lord Cumber refused to renew your lease, although he must be aware that you have expended in the erection of this fine manufactory a sum not less, I should suppose, than five or six thousand pounds. "'Seven thousand six hundred, replied the old man, setting me right, 'nearly four thousand between Harman and us.
Mary M'Loughlin could have borne everything but this. Yes; the abandonment of friends of acquaintances of a fickle world itself; but here it was where her moral courage foiled her.
"There was little in it," he replied, in a rebuked but cold and malignant spirit; "I didn't think you were so violent. I bore a great deal from you this day, Mr. M'Louglin a great deal, indeed, and so patiently as I bore it too; upon my credit I did." M'Loughlin made no reply, but stamped on the floor, in order to bring up some person to whom he might pay the reckoning.
"It's no comfort," replied Poll, "but I'll tell you what's a comfort, the thought that I'll never die till I have full revenge on Brian M'Loughlin ay, either on him or his or both. Come, Raymond, have you ne'er a spare curse now for Brian M'Loughlin? you could give a fat one to M'Clutchy this minute and have you none for Brian M'Loughlin?"
"But observe me now, Poll; if this report concerning the firm of M'Loughlin and Harman should by any possibility be traced to us, or rather to yourself, and that you should be pressed to disclose it, which, of course, you could not be; but if a weak moment should ever come it is best then to speak the truth, and put the saddle as they rather profanely say, upon Valentine M'Clutchy, the right horse here."
James Harman who was standing behind him stepped forward, 'but I can say more, said he, 'she's daughter to Brian M'Loughlin, and no acquaintance of yours and what is more, never will be; ay, and what is more, said James, 'here's a proof of it; and as he spoke he pulled Phil's proboscis, and then wiped his fingers in his purty face.
"Our farms lie snugly together, Mr: M'Loughlin, and that's what I end with." It was from the town of Castle Cumber, which we have described at the opening of our narrative, that old Tom Topertoe, a squire of the true Irish kidney, took his title.
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