Chevydale looked at him with deep attention for a moment, then whispered something to Vanston, who smiled, and nodded his head approvingly.
Jemmy Burke now prepared to go. “Good mornin', gintlemen,” he said, “I am glad to see the honest name cleared and set right, as it ought to be; but as for myself, I lave you wid a heavy—wid a breakin' heart.”
As he disappeared at the door, Hycy rushed after him, exclaiming, “Father, listen to me—don't go yet till you hear my defence. I will go and fetch him back,” he exclaimed—“he must hear what I have to say for myself.”
He overtook his father at the bottom of the hall steps. “Give me a hundred pounds,” said he, “and you will never see my face again.”
“There is two hundre',” said his father; “I expected this. Your mother confessed all to me this mornin', bekaise she knew it would come out here, I suppose. Go now, for undher my roof you'll never come again. If you can—reform your life—an' live at all events, as if there was a God above you. Before you go answer me;—what made you bring in Bat Hogan to rob me?”
“Simply,” replied his son, “because I wished to make him and them feel that I had them in my power—and now you have it.”
Hycy received the money, set spurs to his horse, and was out of sight in a moment—“Ah!” exclaimed the old man, with bitterness of soul, “what mightn't he be if his weak and foolish mother hadn't taken it into her head to make a gentleman of him! But now she reaps as she sowed. She's punished—an' that's enough.”—And thus does Hycy the accomplished make his exit from our humble stage.
“Gintlemen,” said Finigan, “now that the accomplished Mr. Hycy is disposed of, I beg to state, that it will be productive of much public good to the country to expatriate these three virtuous worthies, qui nomine gaudent Hogan—and the more so as it can be done on clear legal grounds. They are a principal means of driving this respectable young man, Bryan M'Mahon, and his father's family, out of the land of their birth; and there will be something extremely appropriate—and indicative besides of condign and retributive punishment—in sending them on their travels at his Majesty's expense. I am here, in connection with others, to furnish you with the necessary proof against them; and I am of opinion that the sooner they are sent upon a voyage of discovery it will be so much the better for the rejoicing neighborhood they will leave behind them.”