ye said he staring at me over his spectacles it s to save another said i and to redeem my word what would be more good than that do ye no mind the scripture and you with the book upon your lap shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world ay said he that s grand for you but where do i come in i have my word to redeem the same s and what are ye asking me to do but just to sell it ye for have i named the name of cried i ou the name s said he the thing is there whatever it just comes to this if i am to service ye the way that you propose i ll lose my then it s clear ye ll have to make it up to me and a for your ain credit like and what s that but just a bribe and if even i was certain of the bribe but by a that i can learn it s far that and if you were to hang where would be na the thing s no possible and just wi ye uke a lad and let read his chapter i remember i was at bottom a good deal gratified with this result and the next humour i fell into was one i had near said of gratitude to who had saved me in this violent manner out of the midst of my dangers temptations and but this was both too and too cowardly to last me long and the remembrance of the missing witness james began to succeed to the possession of my spirits the st the day set for the trial i passed in such misery of mind as i can scarce recall to have endured save perhaps upon isle only much of the time i lay on a side sleep and waking my body motionless my mind full of violent thoughts sometimes i slept indeed but the of and the prisoner glancing on all sides to find his missing witness followed me in slumber and i would wake again with a start to darkness of spirit and distress of body i thought seemed to observe me but i paid him little heed verily my bread was bitter to me and my days a early the next morning friday nd a boat came with provisions and placed a packet in my hand the cover was without address but sealed with a government seal it enclosed two notes mr can now see for himself it is too late to his conduct wiu be observed and his discretion rewarded so ran the first which seemed to be laboriously writ with the left hand there was certainly nothing in these expressions to compromise the writer even if that person could be found the seal which served instead of signature was to a separate sheet on which there was no scratch of writing and i had to confess that so far my knew what they were doing and to as well as i was able the threat that peeped under the promise but the second was by far the more surprising it was in a lady s hand of writ is informed a friend m for him and her eyes were of the grey it ran � and seemed so extraordinary a piece to come to my hands at such a moment and under cover of a government seal that i stood stupid s grey eyes shone in my remembrance i thought with a bound of pleasure she must be the friend but who should the writer be to have her thus enclosed with s and of all wonders why was it thought needful to give me this pleasing but most intelligence upon the bass for the writer i could hit upon none possible except miss grant her family i had remarked on s eyes and even named her for their colour and she herself had been much in the habit to address me with a broad by way of a i supposed at my no doubt besides but she lived in the same house as this letter came fix m so there remained but one step to be accounted for and that was how should have permitted her at au in an affair so secret or let her like go in the same cover with his own but even here i had a glimmering for first of all there was something rather alarming about the young lady and papa might be more under her than i knew and second there was the man s continual to be remembered how his conduct had been continually mingled with caresses and he had scarce ever in the midst of so much laid aside a mask of friendship he must conceive that my imprisonment had me perhaps this little friendly message was intended to my the missing i wiu be honest � and i think it did i felt a sudden warmth towards that beautiful miss grant that she should stoop to so much interest in my affairs the up of moved me of itself to and more cowardly counsels if the advocate knew of her and of our acquaintance � if i should please him by some of that discretion at which his letter pointed � to what might not this lead in vain is the net spread in the sight of any fowl the scripture says well fowls must be wiser than folk for i thought i perceived the policy and yet fell in with it i was in this frame my heart beating the grey eyes plain before me like two stars when broke in upon my musing i see ye gotten news said he i found him looking curiously in my face with that there came before me like a vision of james and the court of and my mind turned at once hke a door 