To Mr.Baxter he writes a month later, "I have a novel on the stocks to be called _The Justice-Clerk_.

It is pretty Scotch; the grand premier is taken from Braxfield (O, by the by, send me Cockburn's _Memorials_), and some of the story is, well, queer.

The heroine is seduced by one man, and finally disappears with the other man who shot him.

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