Interrogated how you had come to send no word to Mr.Campbell, he deponed that you had expressed a great desire to break with your past life.

Further interrogated where you now were, protested ignorance, but believed you were in Leyden.

That is a close sum of his replies.

I am not exactly sure that any one believed him," continued Mr.Rankeillor with a smile; "and in particular he so much disrelished me expressions of mine that (in a word) he showed me to the door.

We were then at a full stand; for whatever shrewd suspicions we might entertain, we had no shadow of probation.