went instantly in search of Lerwick; but he had gone the day before to some part of the Highlands, the name of which place he had not mentióned to the captain of the Dutch vessel.

Whiggans suspected Lerwick had gone to Villejuive's, and proposed to St. Clyde to go thither; accordingly they left Aberdeen, and travelled by Kincardine, and through Braemar, stopping at Blair Athol only one day; then pursuing their journey through the mountains, they came to Inversuick, and thence they arrived at Dalmally, and here they got some intimation of a man answering to the description of Lerwick, and from the route he had taken, it seemed pretty evident that he was going to Airdshiel to Villejuive. Whiggans here assumed the dress in which he appeared to St. Clyde in Bute; and as he could really play,

suspicion hid her face when he went to Villejuive's; the outlaw's thin, sallow visage seen but, half, half hidden by his hood; his gaunt frame worn with toil; his cheek sunk; his eye looking haggard-wild, and his face

wan.

The plaid he wore wrapped up his whole frame, save his hose and brogues; his harp was carelessly slung over one shoulder, and a haversack was suspended over the other; his cabir staff, as long as his length, he grasped two-thirds of its height from the ground; and, pilgrim-like, with "wandering minstrel age and care," in solemn step, he came to the door of an emigrant's house in which Villejuive now put up; and as this man affected great consequence and courtesy to strangers, he welcomed the minstrel with amazing condescension; the sang froid of his native land would ill have greeted this son of song; the grimace

and etiquette of Gallic look and gesture-master, Villejuive for once dismissed, to share with his host this helpless harper's toil, and cheer and guide him on his rugged way."

After opening the ceremony of a Highland welcome, Villejuive could not cease to observe the fixed look of the outlaw, who now asked, whether he might not be allowed to reside in the house for some days. The host could hardly refuse the poor man's request; it was enforced, too, by the solicitations of his two daughters. Villejuive could ill brook their courtesy, but he strove by a smile to quell the agitation of his heart, and the harper was welcomed by their host.

This was all Whiggans wanted. He pretended to visit the neighbourhood, but in fact to communicate to St. Clyde his success in gaining a footing in Villejuive's house. St. Clyde and

his servant took up their residence at a little inn, and waited for Whiggans's return. Villejuive, and the rebel officer, and his daughters, dined together, and promised themselves some good entertainment from the harper.

Accordingly Whiggans was requested to play some tunes, which he did with inconsiderable skill. He did not pretend to be quite alive to his own music, but rather, as M. Villejuive remarked, être battu de l'oiseau; and it was observed that, during his performance, the eyes of Villejuive had more than once met the stern encountering glance that fell from the harper's visage, and all the company lost their glee, and gazed in dreary silence on each other, when the sullen scowl of the minstrel fell full upon the shrinking countenance of Villejuive. The company had had "proofs as strong as holy writ," that Whiggans's skill in

minstrelsy was not good, and he was told by Villejuive he might now retire to his own apartment. The servant accordingly conducted him to the garret of the house, and was about to leave him, when Whiggans, who had not as yet seen any appearance of Lerwick, contrived to lead the servant into conversation on music, and as this man prided himself on his skill on the flute, the violin, and the bag-pipe, Whiggans learned, by the promise of a song he had sung and played, that the pedler had not been at Villejuive's. Indeed, it was hardly possible, as Whiggans and St. Clyde came on horseback as speedily as they could from Aberdeen, whereas Lerwick travelled on foot the whole way.

The next day Villejuive was walking with the daughters of his brother officer, and was accosted by a young "caird," who offered to tell their for