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make the application just as their credulity suited them.

It was well known, too, that Sandy Glass could have no hand in any thing that happened in Mon. Villejuive's house; and Isabel having been another evening very much agitated in mind as she lay in the huge garret we have described, conjured up to her imagination the ghost of the "auld laird standing at the bar beside twa panels in the town-hall of Inverary;" and next day, for all that night she had not ventured to raise her head from beneath the blankets, having related to Jannett Glenderoy her vision or apparition of the night, all who heard it prognosticated a discovery, and wondered "how the poor lassie could sleep in sic a house." Their wonder soon ceased; for Isabel staid no longer in Mon. Villejuive's house after she heard that nobody but herself would sleep in a

haunted garret. Mon. Villejuive could not get a servant to come and stay with his housekeeper; and he had Sandy Glass brought to him, and questioned the poor lad as to his "playing the ghost about a gentleman's house." Sandy denied all knowledge of this transaction; confessing, however, his having done so at the wood and the loch; and he very shrewdly asked Mon.Villejuive how, "a puir daft callan coud get into the garret o' his house?" And Villejuive, finding he could make nothing of Sandy, dismissed him.

However, this investigation of Glass but added to his fame for "greater wisdom than ony Christian;" the poor semi-idiot was not deemed a Christian, nor was it ever imagined he would gang among lowing brimstone, because he had nae sense to ken the catechism, and had nae taen the sacrament." And

Glass did not lessen the effect such an interview had upon the minds of the people. Nor did he ever tell lies; but his manner of relating the memoirs of his own times was always of the marvellous; and, with all its improbability, every word of Sandy was Gospel to those who believed the age of miracles had passed away, and "faith was the evidence of things not seen."

The sons of Mon. Villejuive now found, that to depart for the islands of the New World was their only refuge. Their father, they lamented to hear, had no become an object of hatred; their spirit was too great to brook the reflection that he was disliked by their countrymen; and their utmost endeavours, even if they had the "tongues of angels," to rebut every whisper and insinuation that met their ears, would only add strength to the surmises of the people; and sooner than live in

such a state of degradation as they now found themselves reduced to, they determined to set off with the autumn fleet for Jamaica.

They communicated their plan again to their father, who by no means liked it; but their resolution was not to be shaken by his elocution; and accordingly every preparation was made for their departure.

With their cousin Ellen they still had been on the most friendly footing; and Louis undertook to disclose to her their plan, and give her their reasons for adopting it. Ellen wept sadly, and her cousins were not behind her in sorrow and grief. It was a commingling of sympathies, which consanguinity very naturally produced.

Mr. Thornhill was also their friend; and when they related to him their plan, and mentioned the indirect insinuations they had heard dropped,

and the degraded light in which they viewed themselves, the good man cordially joined them in their intentions; and having observed that "Heaven would never cease to befriend the good and virtuous," got a promise from each of them to write him, as he, on his part, promised to do them. But the plain truth seemed to be, the good man looked upon them, as he did upon the recruits of the 42d, a part of his charge going to foreign lands; and "he had no greater joy than to hear that all his children," for so he styled every child he christened, "walked in the Gospel light."

All the people of the island, when they heard of these good young men's design, craved Heaven's protection on their heads, and rested satisfied that a blessing would go with them. In fact, they were now beloved as much as they had formerly been looked down

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