Finn, a Member of
Parliament, had been sent by Slide himself to call upon Kennedy, a
member of the late Government, at Kennedy's hotel. And the paragraph
must be true. He himself had warned Finn that there would be danger
in the visit. He had even prophesied murder,--and murder had been
attempted! The whole transaction had been, as it were, the very
goods and chattels of the _People's Banner_, and the paper had been
shamefully robbed of its property. Mr. Slide hardly doubted that
Phineas Finn had himself sent the paragraph to an adverse paper, with
the express view of adding to the injury inflicted upon the _Banner_.
That day Mr. Slide hardly did his work effectively within his glass
cage, so much was his mind affected, and at five o'clock, when he
left his office, instead of going at once home to Mrs. Slide at
Camden Town, he took an omnibus, and went down to Westminster. He
would at once confront the traitor who had deceived him.
It must be acknowledged on behalf of this editor that he did in truth
believe that he had been hindered from doing good.
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