Well, how are matters proceeding ?" "Not by any means well," replied the other, "I begin to feel something like alarm.

I wish we had those M'Mahons out of the country.

Vanston has paid that d--d goose Chevydale a visit, and I fear that unless the Ahadarra man and his father, and the whole crew of them, soon leave the country, we shall break down in our object." "Do you tell me so ?" said the gauger, starting; "by Jove, it is well I know this in time." "I don't understand." "Why," continued.

Clinton, "I was about to take a foolish step to-morrow morning, for the express purpose, I believe, of keeping him, and probably the whole family in the country." He then detailed the conversation that he had with his nephew, upon which Fethertonge convinced him that there was more in the wind with respect to that step, than either he or his nephew, who he assured him was made a cat's paw of in the business, suspected.

"That's a deep move," said the agent, "but we shall defeat them, notwithstanding.
Everything, however, depends upon their leaving the country before Chevydale happens to come at the real state of the case; still, it will go hard or we shall baffle both him and them yet." Whether Clinton Was sure that the step urged upon him by his nephew was the result of a generous regard for M'Mahon, or that the former was made a mere tool for ultimate purposes, in the hands of the Ahadarra man, as he called him it is not easy to determine.