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 haye endured perhaps upon isle only much of the time i lay on a side sleep and waking my body motionless my mind fuu of thoughts sometimes i slept indeed but the court house 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 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 and placed a packet in my hand the was without address but sealed with a gk ment seal it enclosed two notes mr can now see for himself it is too late to his conduct will be 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 if thai 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 ing it was in a lady s hand of writ is informed a friend him and her eyes were of the grey it ran � and seemed ao extraordinary a piece to come to my hands at such a moment and under cover of a government seal that i stupid s grey eyes shone in my 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 me this pleasing but most intelligence upon the bass for the writer i could hit upon none possible except miss grant her family i remembered 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 from so there remained but one step to be accounted for and that was how have permitted her at all in an affair so secret or david her like go in the same with his own bat even here i had a glimmering for first of all there was something rather alarming the young lady and papa might be more her than i knew and second there was the man s policy to be remembered how his conduct had been continually mingled with caresses and he had scarce in the midst of so much laid aside a mask of friendship he must that my imprisonment had me perhaps this little friendly message was intended to my i will be honest � and i think it did i felt a sudden warmth towards that miss that she should stoop to so much interest in my affairs the up of me of itself to and more cowardly counsels if the 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 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 in my face with that there came before me like a of james and the court of and my mind tamed at a door upon its hinges trials i reflected sometimes draw out longer than is looked for even if i came to too late something might yet be attempted in the interests of james � and in those of my own character the best would be accomplished in a moment it seemed without thought i had a plan said i is it still to be to morrow p he told me nothing was changed was anything said about the hour f i asked he told me it was to be two o clock and about the place i pursued place p says the place tm to be landed at said l he owned there was nothing as to that very well then i said this shall be mine to arrange the wind is in the east my road lies west keep your boat i hire it let us work up the forth all day and land me at two o clock to morrow at the we ll can have reached ye he cried ye would try in after a i just that says i ye re ill to beat says he and i kind o sorry for ye a day yesterday he added � ye see i was never entirely sure till then which way of it ye really david here was a to a lame horse i a word in your ear l this plan � f mine has another advantage yet we can leave these behind ns on the rock and one of boats from the can bring them off tomorrow yon has a queer eye when he regards you maybe if i was once out of the gate there might be knives again these red are and if there should come to be any question here is four 