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make Brodick bay; but there was seen scudding, as if from Loch Fine, in the same direction, a sail, which Whiggans pronounced to be Stuart's cutter.

The cutter saw the smuggler, and gave chace. Whiggans hoisted the Dutch flag and altered her course, standing more to the south-east; the cutter pursued; Whiggans could not flee; but he might pretend to be steering to Ayr, or perhaps to the south; the cutter might not presume to chase an ally's vessel; but, suspicious of trick, Whiggans also pretended to be going the same track, southward: however the cutter could gain nothing on the smuggler, and when Whiggans came within half a league of Aisla Rock, he altered his course, leaving the cutter many leagues behind; and by morning the lugger weathered the Mull of Cantire, when the cutter could not be seen.

It was now that Whiggans took an

opportunity of disclosing to St. Clyde, his belief in the divinations of the seer Shemus Macalester. St. Clyde, though he took the popular side of the question in his argument with Mr. Thornhill, was not very willing to admit the conclusions Whiggans drew from the seer's divinations; for the bold outlaw had affirmed, that "Shemus Macalester could even divine futurity;" but St. Clyde was too much indebted to Whiggans, to controvert the point, or advance any thing that might make him desist from his enterprise.

As the wind shifted, the lugger was able to lay up Jura sound; and Whiggans, St. Clyde, and his servant, were landed on a little point of land south of Duntroon,

The lieutenant, on parting from them, wished them success, and on receiving some secret instructions from

Whiggans, intimating, that he should expect, whatever might be the result to himself personally, of the expedition in which he was engaged, as the lieutenant was now well off in the lugger, the minister and Miss St. Clyde should not be forgotten by the shipper of any of the North Channel rovers: the lieutenant replied significantly, "Good your

common, kiss your kimmer," and lifted his hat to St. Clyde, saying, "Farewell, sir, I wish you success."

At Duntroon they got provided with horses, and travelled along Loch Awe; nor halted but to refresh nature, till they arrived at Dalmally. At the little inn at which they put up here, every article was of wood, except a few tea-cups and saucers; and St. Clyde, who had not for many years eaten of it, preferred at dinner a bowl of curds and cream.

On admiring the neatness of the bicker, or bowl, Whiggans remarked

"Fabricataque fago
Pocula.-"

And St. Clyde, who till now had conceived of Whiggans nothing more than a plain man of good sense, but depraved morals, in pursuing the trade of an outlaw, started as if he had heard the voice of an oracle, and looked at Whiggans so gravely as to draw from him another remark.

Why start, Mr. St. Clyde? I had read the bard ere ye could dance curcuddie-but spier nae mair; you can emulate your forebearis. I, if I make the boast of Tully negative,

"Ego meis majoribus virtute non præluxi," I will have briefly pictured my life; but still I hope I shall have time for repairing the errors of manhood, into which the inconsiderate folly of youth plunged me."

CHAPTER XVI.

Wherever he turns his eyes, horror presents itself; if he looks backwards, unavailable repentance treads on his heels; if forward, incurable despair stares him in the face; till, like a condemned prisoner, confined in a dungeon, he detests his present condition, and yet dreads the consequence of that hour which is to relieve him from it.

[Mr. Allworthy to Tom Jones, on discovering the treachery of Blifil.]

As soon as St. Clyde and Whiggans arrived at Aberdeen, they applied for a warrant to apprehend Lerwick; the magistrate, who had personally known St. Clyde's late father, no sooner heard the request, than, recognising in the person of Colin the Laird St. Clyde, he gave him a hearty welcome, and declared he would himself go and see the warrant executed; and they all

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