high rock into the sea, as his greatcoat was found on the summit of the cliff.

The sessions were to be holden on the month following; and in the mean time Lerwick was examined by all the magistrates and justices of the peace, in the shires of Argyle and Bute.

The minister, the school-master, and the sergeant, when the report of Villejuive's suicide was brought them, prepared to go to Inverary, and they proposed to ride to Ettrick bay; and Sandy Glass having been forbidden to ride with them, though he had urged it piteously-there was hardly a person but felt for poor Sandy-" It matters nae," quoth he; "there's muckle to do when dominies ride; I ken wha found it a' out, and gif they winna let me ride, may be they winna hang the birkie. Peter's nae worth a woodie, gif his maister hae taen the loup."

When asked "Guilty or not guilty," Lerwick preserved the most sullen silence, as he did also throughout the whole trial; and though there remained no doubt that he was accessory both to the murder of the laird, and the attack upon Colin, yet such was the dif ficulty to bring forward sufficient evidence, that the trial was about to be put off till the next circuit of the judge, when Lerwick, snatching a dirk from the side of a Highlander who stood close beside him, sheathed it in his breast, exclaiming "Out! so much ado to get me hanged!" and he instantly expired.

The confusion and horror of the court were inconceivable; and they separated, satisfied that "whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."

St. Clyde and Levingstone went to Edinburgh, the minister and the domi

nie to Bute; and the good man wrote the young Villejuives a very full, true, and particular account of the discovery that had been made, and the suicide of their father; and begged to know what they intended doing with the mortgage of the estate of St. Clyde. They returned many thanks to Mr.Thornhill, for his kindness and goodness, and besought him to produce to the fiscal the postscript to their letter, by which

they renounced for themselves and their heirs for ever, all title to the mortgage, and to all monies the family of St. Clyde might be indue their late wretched parent," adding that they should change their names, and might in future be addressed as "Louis and James Bonandros."

St. Clyde returned to Bute, after he had spent a month with his friends, the Stuarts, at Edinburgh; and when he got possession of the estate of his la

mented sire, he had the happiness, before he again joined his regiment, to give his consent to the marriage of Ellen and Levingstone, which was solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Thornhill, to the great delight of Mr. and Mrs. Levingstone, and Admiral Springfield, who insisted on the privilege of giving away the happy bride. And in the space of three months more, Mr. Thornhill was summoned to Kelvin, where all Mr. Stuart's family were, to join the hands of Eliza Stuart and Colin St. Clyde.

THE END.

ERRATA.

Page 27, 2nd line, for "lavrock," read "the lavrock."

Page 28, 3rd line, for "comee," read "come."

4th line from bottom, for "gankie," read "gaukie." last line, for "hankie," read "hawkie."

Page 134, 8th line, for "Tubermony," read "Tobermory.”

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