Did you not look at him so as to know him again ?" "I had but the light of a lantern, my Lord Provost; and as to suffering him to escape, I was alone," said the glover, "and old.

But yet I might have kept him, had I not heard my daughter shriek in the upper room; and ere I had returned from her chamber the man had escaped through the garden." "Now, armourer, as a true man and a good soldier," said Sir Patrick, "tell me what you know of this matter." Henry Gow, in his own decided style, gave a brief but clear narrative of the whole affair.
Honest Proudfute being next called upon, began his statement with an air of more importance.

"Touching this awful and astounding tumult within the burgh, I cannot altogether, it is true, say with Henry Gow that I saw the very beginning.

But it will not be denied that I beheld a great part of the latter end, and especially that I procured the evidence most effectual to convict the knaves." "And what is it, man ?" said Sir Patrick Charteris.

"Never lose time fumbling and prating about it.