21/32 "And now, if you please, we shall approach this business with a little more parteecularity. I hear that at the hanging of Duncan Jopp--and, man! ye had a fine client there--in the middle of all the riff-raff of the ceety, ye thought fit to cry out, 'This is a damned murder, and my gorge rises at the man that haangit him.'" "No, sir, these were not my words," cried Archie. "I beg your pardon--a God-defying murder. I have no wish to conceal the truth," he added, and looked his father for a moment in the face. "There was nothing about your gorge rising, then ?" "That was afterwards, my lord, as I was leaving the Speculative. |