The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-27

all that were there present to witness,
! that it should lie upon him, that was a
man of substance and responsibility, If
he should allow mine enemy to shed my
blood without trial.
Then the Englishman, who had been
trained, as they all are, to fine instinct
of law-abiding, cried out among them
all:
Let the man be taken to prison. Let
him be kept close till he have fair trial.
A man is surely innocent till he be
proved guilty, in every country save in
this uncouth land of the Scots, where
they set man to hedge and shoot him,
or string him to a, tree and try him as
he bangles. Give the man to my hand,
and / will keep him safe in mine own
house, and produce him upon warrant.
for which shall be surety to the whole
extent of my goods"
So In spite of Philip Standsfield and
his cabal, I was let go with Umphray
Spurway, for he was an urgent man.
and imperous, so that very few dared
say no to him in all that country side.
So as soon as got him alone in his own
house began to tell him all the tale of
the demons. at which relation, first of
all, he cried "Pshaw." and "Clotted
nonsense" with other expressions / can
not repeat, being unseemly to be writ
| ten down by minister.
But after he had thought n little, he
bade me repeat 1t all again from the be-
ginning, and indeed several times over,
questioning me of what / had seen, till
now said to him, "Ah, Mr.. Spurway.
bide a little. and you will come to be-
lieve In the demons"
tut! gull-head," he said very rudcly
to me, that am a minister dhough till
lately without charge). Il will find
your demons for you when my good
friend the commissary comes from
Edinburgh"
Then he told me how It had been re-
! solved to hush the matter up now that
Philip and his clan had been baked in
the immediate killing OF me for the fact
but that he, Umphray Spurway. had
taken 1t upon him to write to one Mr..
Gorge Hume. merchant In Edinburgh,
who was great with my Lord Advocate
| Dalrymple, to have him order a public
examination.
"Then It will go hard IL grip not
your devils for you, minister. as read
| lily as herd that grips sheep at n
narrow slap i'm stone dyke"
These things ! set down as he said
them, for that was his strange and i'm
modest way of speech. But deny not
that the man treated me well enough
all the time that / abode in his house
by the cloth manufactury, to which he
went and came at stated hours. as reg
ular as the clock which Is the use and
wont of Yorkshire men.
1t was about IL that night OF the
Sabbath-the strangest I have ever
seen, and God and the angels keep me
from seeing any stranger-that Um-
phray Spurway walked me out of sleep
He stood by my bedside, with William
Bowman, his servant. | feared he had
come to tell me that I was to go to
prison. But instead he asked me to
rise, and be a witness of n strange
| transaction.
| So soon as we came out of the house
and, the door was shut behind us, we
saw great many fitting lights at the
door OF the place Of New Min. As we
went nearer we heard also the tram
pling of horses and n concourse of peo-
pie.
BY the way we met man hurrying
greatly. He would have passed us by
| without speech. but. william Bowman
| tripped him up, being n Cumberland
man and skilled in such plays.
| / heard Umphray spnrway say to
a