I rushed in and grasped her gown, and drew her out and carried her on my shouthers--I could hae carried twa sic then--carried her to my hut, and laid her on my bed.

Neighbours cam and brought help; but the words she uttered in her ravings, when she got back the use of speech, were such, that I was fain to send them awa, and get up word to Glenallan House.

The Countess sent down her Spanish servant Teresa--if ever there was a fiend on earth in human form, that woman was ane.

She and I were to watch the unhappy leddy, and let no other person approach .-- God knows what Teresa's part was to hae been--she tauld it not to me--but Heaven took the conclusion in its ain hand.

The poor leddy! she took the pangs of travail before her time, bore a male child, and died in the arms of me--of her mortal enemy! Ay, ye may weep--she was a sightly creature to see to--but think ye, if I didna mourn her then, that I can mourn her now?
Na, na, I left Teresa wi' the dead corpse and new-born babe, till I gaed up to take the Countess's commands what was to be done.