At the period spoken of neither you nor they had come in from the kemp.

Even this is but a dim recollection, and I remember nothing more until I overheard your voice and theirs in dialogue as you were about to depart.

After you went, I heard the dialogue which I hinted at in the letter, between Teddy Phats and them; and knowing my position and the misbegotten satyrs by whom I was surrounded, I patiently waited until they were asleep, when I quietly took my departure." Burke could not help inferring from Finigan's manner, that he had overheard a greater portion of their conversation on the occasion alluded to than he seemed disposed to acknowledge.
"Now, Finigan," he said, "I feel disposed to place every confidence in you.

Will you answer candidly the question I am about to propose to you?
Did you hear Bryan M'Mahon's name mentioned ?" "You say, Mr.Hycy," replied Finigan, emptying his glass, "that you would enthertain no apprehension in placing confidence in me ?" "Not the slightest," replied Hycy; "I believe you to be the very soul of honor; and, besides, are you not my old master?
As you say yourself, did I not break grammatical ground, under you ?" "The soul of honor," replied the pedagogue, complacently--"that is excellently said.

Well, then, Mr.Burke, I shall not deal out my confidence by beggarly instalments--I did hear Bryan M'Mahon's name mentioned; and I heard a plan alluded to between you and them for reducing him to--" "That was all humbug, Finigan, so far as I am concerned; but for the present I am obliged to let them suppose what you allude to, in order to keep them honest to myself if I can.