on and can see for yourself how i come to be so much mingled up with the affairs of your family and friends which for all of our i wish had been and less bloody you can see for yourself too that i have certain pieces of business depending which were scarcely fit to lay before a lawyer chosen at random no more remains but to ask if you will undertake my service i have no great mind to it but coming as you do with s button the choice is scarcely left me said he what are your instructions he added and took up his pen the first point is to forth of this country said i but i need not be repeating that i am little likely to forget it said the next thing is the bit money i am owing to i went on it would be ill for me to find a conveyance but that should be no stick to you it was two pounds five shillings and three sterling he noted it then said i there s a mr a preacher and missionary in that i would like well to get some snuff into the hands of and as i you keep touch with your friends in so near by it s a job you could doubtless overtake with the other how much snuff are we to say he asked i was thinking of two pounds said i � two said he then there s the in lime the writer said i her that helped and mo across the forth i was thinking if i could get her a good sunday go vn such as she could wear with decency in her degree it would be an ease to my conscience for the mere truth is we owe her our two lives i am glad to see you are mr says he making his notes i would think to be otherwise the day of my fortune said i and now if you will the and your own proper charges i would be glad to know if i could get some back it s not that i grudge the whole of it to get safe it s not that i lack more but having drawn so much the one day i think it would have a very ill appearance if i was back again seeking the next only bo sure you have enough i added for i am very to meet with you again well and i m pleased to see you re cautious too said the writer but i think ye take a risk to lay so considerable a sum at my discretion he said this with a plain sneer i ll have to run the hazard i replied and there s another service i would ask and that s to direct me to a lodging for i have no roof to my head but it must be a lodging i may seem to have hit upon by accident for it would never do if the lord advocate were to get any jealousy of our acquaintance ye may set your weary spirit at rest said he i will never name your name sir and it s my belief the advocate is still so much to be with that he ken of your existence c i saw i had got to the wrong side of the man there s a day coming for him then said i for hell have to learn of it on the deaf side of his head no later than to morrow when i call on him when ye call on him i repeated mr am i or are you what takes ye near the advocate just to give myself up said i mr he cried are ye making a mock of me no sir said i though i think you have allowed yourself some such freedom with myself but i give you to understand once and for all that i am in no spirit nor yet me says and i give you to understand if that s to be the word that i e the looks of your behaviour less and less you come here to me with all sorts of which will put me in a train of very doubtful acts and bring me among very persons this many a day to come and then you tell me you re going straight out of my office to make your peace with the advocate s button here or s button there the four quarters of bribe me further in i would take it with a little more temper said i and perhaps we can avoid what you object to i can see no way for it but to give myself up but perhaps you can see another and if you could i could never deny but what i would be rather relieved for i think my traffic with his is little likely to agree with my health there s just the the thing clear that i have to give my evidence for i hope it ll save s character what s left of it and james s neck which is the more immediate he was silent for a breathing space and then my man said he you ll never be allowed to give such evidence we ll have to see about that said i i m when i like ye ass cried it s james they want james has got to hang � too if they could catch him � but james whatever go near the advocate with any such business and you ll see he ll find a way to ye i think better of the advocate than that said i the advocate be damned cries he it s the man you ll have the whole of them on your back and so will the advocate too poor body it s ye cannot see where ye stand if there s 