contribute to their relief was no part of his duty. Yet
he was not a bad man. In his transactions with his landlord's tenancy,
he was fair, impartial, and considerate. Whenever he could do a good
turn, or render a service, without touching his purse, he would do it.
He had, it is true, very little intercourse with the poorer class of
under tenants, but, whenever circumstances happened to bring them
before him, they found him a hard, just man, who paid attention to their
complaints, but who, in a case of doubt, always preferred the interest
of his employer, or his own, to theirs. He had received many complaints
and statements against the middlemen who resided upon the property, and
he had duly and carefully considered them. His present visit, therefore,
proceeded from a determination to look closely into the state and
condition of the general tenancy, by which he meant as well those who
derived immediately from the head landlord, as those who held under
middlemen. One virtue he possessed, which, in an agent, deserves every
praise; he was inaccessible to bribery on the one hand, or flattery on
the other; and he never permitted his religious or political principles
to degenerate into prejudice, so far as to interfere with the impartial
discharge of his duty. Such was Robert James Travers, Esq., and we only
wish that every agent in the country at large would follow his example.

CHAPTER XXII. -- Re-appearance of the Box--Friendly Dialogue Between
Jimmy Branighan and the Pedlar

The next morning but one after the committal of Condy Dalton, the
strange woman who had manifested such an anxious interest in the
recovery of the Tobacco-Box, was seated at her humble fireside, in a
larger and more convenient cottage than that which we have described,
where she was soon joined by Charley Hanlon, who had already made it
so comfortable and convenient that she was able to contribute something
towards her own support, by letting what are termed in the country parts
of Ireland, "Dry Lodgings." Her only lodger on this occasion was our
friend the pedlar, who had been domiciled with her ever since his
arrival in the neighborhood, and whose principal traffic, we may
observe, consisted in purchasing the flowing and luxuriant heads of hair
which necessity on the one hand, and fear of fever on the other, induced
the country maidens to part with. This traffic, indeed, was very general
during the period we are describing, the fact being