sun, Mr. Levingstone."-"Do you suppose it was Mon. Villejuive that attacked Colin and the sergeant? do you think so, Mr. Whiggans?"

"Mr. Levingstone, I assure you I do think it was; for who but he could have that pistol?"

"It might have gone from him or from Colin into some other hands; might it not, Mr. Whiggans?"

"Oh! you don't know the history of that pistol; it was a present for Colin; it was a reward for his thoughtlessness, for his services in making rockets of-of-what was my ruin. Go and examine the bag which Louis Villejuive gave his school-master; it's still in Mr. Maclean's possession; aye, and show Colin the pistol; try if Andrew Gillies can't find its fellow about the caim of St. Clyde."

"But where do you suppose Ville

juive is ?"

"Where is he? still where Colin left him; at any rate he was there four days ago."

"Come, you'll go with me to the minister, won't you? it will be necessary for you to come forward in this business."

"What? I come forward,-and go to the minister, just now ?-no, no, that'll never do. I should like to assist in finding out this murderer, but I can hardly bring myself into public notice but at the risk of my neck."

"But you can go incognito to the minister, he will not know ye?"

"Not know me! won't he? let the old gentleman alone for that, he's as gleg's an owl in the gloamin."

"Then I must wait for Colin; and in the mean time we'll get a warrant for the apprehension of Villejuive."

"Then do not lose any time about it; and if Villejuive should have left the

place he was in four days ago, some of my people will have followed him."

"Hav'nt I my people? that is, those I speak of are my men; the persons I employ in the Highlands, in the way of my business; 'tis they that watch the foreigner; depend on't, they'll not lose sight of him; tell the officers to call at Alexander Macphail's in Airdshiel, before they go into Villejuive's, and he'll tell them whether Monsieur is then gone.' "And if he be gone?"

"Have not I said that Macphail's their guide now; after they have got hold of him, never fear but he'll take them to the very spot where Villejuive is."

"And you will not go to the manse with me? but you can have no objection to go to the schoolmaster's, have you?"

"Mr. Maclean's brother to the minister they are sworn friends as to

the politics each holds, if we except the good dominie's drams and pinches of snuff-But,-oho! do you see that ?"

"What? I do not see any one."

"No-it's true there is not a man to be seen, but do you not see the burn red ?"

"Oh, I beg your pardon, I did not observe you pointed to the burn."

"To be sure I did; I'll ne'er keep a dog and bark mysel; that's Glass's signal for an intruder; he's an ouphenbrained fellow; he that will coupar, will to coupar,-good by."

"And you're off, are you, Mr. Whiggans ?"

"To be sure I am,-its gude sleeping in a hale skin; you cannot be ignorant of the precognition that was taken by the Laird St. Clyde and baillie Ilan Dou, when Mactaggart intercepted my letter."

And in an instant Whiggans was hid by the bushes, and a man was seen wandering down the glen, with a lame sheep on his shoulders.

Levingstone went home to the manse, consulted with the minister, and rode into Rothsay; and baillie Ilan Dou made out the warrant for the apprehension of Villejuive, but not without considerable horror and reluctance, to believe it possible that a man of Mon. Villejuive's character, could have been guilty of such a horrible crime, as the discovery of the pistol seemed to impute to him.

The officers were dispatched, but Villejuive was gone from home; however Alexander Macphail conducted them to the retreat of Villejuive, but he escaped before they could seize him; and in two days after, his body was found washed upon the rocks. It was supposed he had leaped from a