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and the road to its bases skirted an immense mass of whin-stone rock, which from the remotest ages had been quarried out in the form of a huge parallelopipedon; and Echo here, since the memory of man, had built herself a palace; and, as the procession passed her gates, she came forth with her train to testify her grief for the death of St. Clyde, for his wife, and his daughter!

The bell, which, slung in the church's ivy-mantled tower, had tolled the knell for boasted heraldry, the pomp of power, the pride of beauty, and the rustic hind, with pealing grandeur welcomed from the precincts of the cheerful day to banquet in the mansion of the king of terrors, the Laird St.Clyde, his wife, and their daughter!

Now they arrived at the churchyard; it was walled around; but this wall, or rather whin-stone dyke, was

more for the purpose of keeping cows and half-starved horses from polluting the sacred relicts of the dead, than for defending these relics from those infernal miscreants, who disturb and plunder the graves of the dead in great cities, to fatten from the price of the delicate body of an only and virtuous daughter, with the same appetite with which they glut their hellish jaws on the gains of the rotten carcase of a wretched prostitute, or a villain whose crimes were honoured with the gallows.

At this humble wall few obstacles opposed themselves to the crowd. The gate of the church resembled the gate of the valley of the shadow of death! and the churchyard looked the morning of the last day! and the vault can be best described by a reference to Blair's grave.

It was a fine opportunity for the worthy clergymen to point into it, and

then to heaven, and exhort their flock to follow the footsteps of HIM who should bid all the dead that lay dissolved to dust around them

"Rise to judgment! come away!"

There were more than forty youths without the churchyard with horses for their owners, who rode home in as sorrowful a mood as they came abroad; but the people who had come from distant places on the island, were seen gliding in different directions across the country to their peaceful ingles; and poor Sandy Glass, for the first time these many days, now got an opportunity of pulling off his hat to the minister and to Levingstone; and the semi-idiot wonder he on all other occasions seemed to show, was visible to all to be very much out of his looks. There was a keenness in his eye, a

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thoughtfulness on his brow, and a steadiness in his gait, which as much disconcerted many of the people at the funeral, as if the most rational lad in the country had been reduced to idiotism in the same space of time. But some said he had only been getting his lesson from the fairies—

"Gin ye ca' me imp or elf,

I rede ye weel look to yourself;
Gin ye ca' me fairy,

I'll work ye meikle tarry ;

Gin gude neiber ye ca' me,

Then gude neiber I will be;
But gin ye ca' me Seely Wight,

I'll be your friend baith day and night."

They had now arrived at the late Laird St. Clyde's, and every thought of every friend in that house was turned to find where consolations lay for Ellen.

But there was as yet no account received of the apprehension of the chapman and the drover.

In examining the papers and memo

randa of St. Clyde's scrutoire, an anonymous paper was found containing,

"Gif ye di in your bed, ye will

di by me;

Gif I meet you on the shore, I will drown

ye in the sea;

Gif I meet ye in the wood, I will hang

ye on a tree;

Gif I meet ye at the loch, drowned sall

ye be."

This paper, which had evidently been long worn in the deceased's pocket, was not in the hand-writing of the drover; every body knew his writing, and all were certain he would never employ another to be the amanuensis of this bloody document.

When Sandy Glass heard of the paper, he muttered to himself, but distinctly enough to be understood by those who were beside him

“Whether men do laugh or weep,

Whether they do wake or sleep,

Whether they feel heat or cald,
Whether they be young or ald,
There is underneath the sun

But one that hath this murder done."

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