Am I not right to call this a conspiracy ?" "It will bear that colour," said I.
"And I'll go on to prove it you outright," said he.

"They have the right to hold James in prison, yet they cannot deny me to visit him.

They have no right to hold the witnesses; but am I to get a sight of them, that should be as free as the Lord Justice Clerk himself?
See--read: _For the rest, refuses to give any orders to keepers of prisons who are not accused as having done anything contrary to the duties of their office_.
Anything contrary! Sirs! And the Act of seventeen hunner! Mr.Balfour, this makes my heart to burst.

The heather is on fire inside my wame." "And the plain English of that phrase," said I, "is that the witnesses are still to lie in prison and you are not to see them ?" "And I am not to see them until Inverary, when the court is set!" cries he, "and then to hear Prestongrange upon _the anxious responsibilities of his office and the great facilities afforded the defence!_ But I'll begowk them there, Mr.David.I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get a little harle of justice out of the _military man notoriously ignorant of the law_ that shall command the party." It was actually so--it was actually on the wayside near Tynedrum, and by the connivance of a soldier officer, that Mr.Stewart first saw the witnesses upon the case.
"There is nothing that would surprise me in this business," I remarked.
"I'll surprise you ere I'm done!" cries he.

"Do ye see this ?"--producing a print still wet from the press.