Ye'll be for having a horning or a caption after him.' 'I see you have no confidence in me, Mrs.Mac-Candlish; but look at these declarations, signed by the persons who saw the crime committed, and judge yourself if the description of the ruffian be not that of your guest.' He put the papers into her hand, which she perused very carefully, often taking off her spectacles to cast her eyes up to heaven, or perhaps to wipe a tear from them, for young Hazlewood was an especial favourite with the good dame.

'Aweel, aweel,' she said, when she had concluded her examination, 'since it's e'en sae, I gie him up, the villain.

But O, we are erring mortals! I never saw a face I liked better, or a lad that was mair douce and canny: I thought he had been some gentleman under trouble.
But I gie him up, the villain! To shoot Charles Hazlewood, and before the young ladies, poor innocent things! I gie him up.' 'So you admit, then, that such a person lodged here the night before this vile business ?' 'Troth did he, sir, and a' the house were taen wi' him, he was sic a frank, pleasant young man.

It wasna for his spending, I'm sure, for he just had a mutton-chop and a mug of ale, and maybe a glass or twa o' wine; and I asked him to drink tea wi' mysell, and didna put that into the bill; and he took nae supper, for he said he was defeat wi' travel a' the night afore.

I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other.' 'Did you by any chance learn his name ?' 'I wot weel did I,' said the landlady, now as eager to communicate her evidence as formerly desirous to suppress it.