I must write to the sheriff of Roxburghshire too, and to an active justice of peace in Cumberland.' 'I hope when you come to the country you will make Woodbourne your headquarters ?' 'Certainly; I was afraid you were going to forbid me.

But we must go to breakfast now or I shall be too late.' On the following day the new friends parted, and the Colonel rejoined his family without any adventure worthy of being detailed in these chapters..