This was the secret of Mr Winter's friends' unusual diligence on voting-day in Moneida.

The mere indication of a wish on the part of the superintendent would constitute undue influence in the eye of the law.
The squire was not the most discreet of men--often before it had been the joke of Conservative councils how near the old man had come to making a case for the Grits in connection with this chief or that.

I will not say that he was acquainted with the famous letter from Queen Victoria, affectionately bidding her Indian children to vote for the Conservative candidate.

But perhaps he had not adhered to the strictest interpretation of the law which gave him fatherly influence in everything pertaining to his red-skinned charges' interests temporal and spiritual, excepting only their sacred privilege of the ballot.

He may even have held it in some genial derision, their sacred privilege; it would be natural, he had been there among them in unquestioned authority so long.