Acting upon this conviction .-- for it amounted to that--he soon satisfied himself that the house was secured against, the possibility of any successful attack upon it.

This he discovered in the village of Grange, when, on inquiring, he found that most of the young men were gone to sit up all night in the "big house".

So much being known, any additional information to Donnel was unnecessary.

He accordingly relinquished the enterprise; and remembering the engagement with young Henderson at the Grey Stone, met him there, to receive the wages of his iniquity; but with what success, the reader is already acquainted.
This double failure of his projects, threw the mind of the Prophet into a train of deep and painful reflection.

He began to reflect that his views of life and society might not, after all, be either the safest or the best.