You may advertise the publications, and Ballantyne, equally agreeable to his own wish and mine, will let you choose your own share in them.

I have a commission for you in the way of art.

I have published many unauthenticated books, as you know, and may probably bring forward many more.

Now I wish to have it in my power to place on a few copies of each a decisive mark of appropriation.

I have chosen for this purpose a device borne by a champion of my name in a tournament at Stirling! It was a gate and portcullis, with the motto CLAUSUS TUTUS ERO.