“I was going down to you,” said he; “but where are you bound for?” “Into town,” replied the agent; “have you any objection to ride that way?” “None in the world; it is just the same to me. 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. Be this as it may, when the hour of eleven came the next morning, he was prepared to set his nephew's generosity aside, and act upon Fethertonge's theory of doing everything in his power to get the whole connection out of the country, “Ha,” he exclaimed, “I now understand what Harry meant with respect to their emigration--'It is that fact which presses upon him most.' Oh ho! is it so, indeed! Very good, Mr. M'Mahon--we shall act accordingly.”