Mr.Vigil had contrived to prove, out of the mouths of inimical witnesses, the very reverse of that which they had been summoned thither to assert.

The secret of the ferry had been first brought to the light by the gentleman who could not visit his daughter at Deptford, and so on.

These triumphs had evidently been very pleasant to Mr.Vigil, and Mr.Nogo thought that he might judiciously take a leaf out of the Treasury book.

Actuated by this ambition, he, with the assistance of his friend, the M'Carthy Desmond, put no less than 2,250 questions to the gentleman who suggested the grazing, in order to induce him to say, that if there were a bridge, men would probably walk over it.

But they could not bring him to own to a single passenger, unless they would abandon the tolls.