Mac-Morlan replied in the affirmative.

'Let Mr.Sampson know,' said the Colonel's next letter, 'that I shall want his assistance to catalogue and put in order the library of my uncle, the bishop, which I have ordered to be sent down by sea.

I shall also want him to copy and arrange some papers.
Fix his salary at what you think befitting.

Let the poor man be properly dressed, and accompany his young lady to Woodbourne.' Honest Mac-Morlan received this mandate with great joy, but pondered much upon executing that part of it which related to newly attiring the worthy Dominie.

He looked at him with a scrutinising eye, and it was but too plain that his present garments were daily waxing more deplorable.