Recommends!--the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland recommends.

Is not the purpose of such language plain?
They hope the officer may be so dull, or so very much the reverse, as to refuse the recommendation.

I would have to make the journey back again betwixt here and Fort William.

There would follow a fresh delay till I got fresh authority, and they had disavowed the officer--military man, notoriously ignorant of the law, and that--I ken the cant of it.

Then the journey a third time; and there we should be on the immediate heels of the trial before I had received my first instruction.