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 on me, I might never get the farm. I can trust you on account of the hold I have over you with all the talk there is about Mrs. Gannon."

"It'll take me three days to go to Belfast and back and get the printing done. How can I go off for three days? Somebody else will die while I am away, and then there'll be more talk."

"Let them die. Amn't I the Chairman, and can't I get you leave of absence for a night or two? I'd like to see the man that would make talk about dying when I bid him keep his mouth shut. That part's all right."

"Why can't I draw up the notices, and get them printed somewhere else besides Belfast?"

"Do you take me for a fool? Or are you a fool yourself? Any of the printers about this part of the country would talk, or, if they didn't, their men would. Then the whole thing would come out."

"It's sure to come out sooner or later. Somebody'll find out that the League never sent out the notices."

"I don't care if it does come out, so long as it doesn't come out before the auction."

"There'll be the hell of a row afterwards!"

"There will not. I'm the biggest subscriber there is to the funds of the League. They won't want to be making a row about my doings. Besides, there's hardly a man of them but is in my books."

"How am I to post them up, supposing I had