He did so.' It was on that affair the priest called here the other day, and I very candidly disclosed to him the history of that letter, and its effect in causing the seizure of the distillery apparatus--the fact being that everything was got up by Hycy himself--I mean at his cost, with a view to ruin M'Mahon.

And this I did the more readily, as the scoundrel has gone far to involve me in the conduct imputed to M'Mahon, as his secret abbettor and enemy." "Well," observed his uncle, "all that's a very pretty affair as it stands; but what are you to do next ?" "There is worse behind, I can assure you," continued his nephew.

"Hycy Burke, who is proverbially extravagant, having at last, in an indirect way, ruined young M'Mahon, from the double motive of ill-will and a wish to raise money by running illicit spirits--" "The d--d scoundrel!" exclaimed the gauger, seized with a virtuous fit of (professional) indignation, "that fellow would scruple at nothing--proceed." "By the way," observed the other, rather maliciously, "he made a complete tool of you in M'Mahon's affair." "He did, the scoundrel," replied his uncle, wincing a good deal; "but, as the matter was likely to turn up, he was only working out my purposes." "He is in a bad mess now, however," continued his nephew.
"Why, is there worse to come ?" "This same Nanny Peety, you must know, is a relative, it seems, to Bat Hogan's wife.

For some time past there has come a strange man named Vincent, and his wife, to reside in the neighborhood, and this fellow in conjunction with the Hogans, was managing some secret proceedings which no one can penetrate.

Now, it appears that Hogan's wife, who has been kept out of this secret, got Nanny Peety to set her father to work in order to discover it.