"You should certainly be called; the bar is the true scene for your talents," says he, bitterly, and then fell a while silent.

"I will tell you," he presently resumed, "there is no question of James Stewart, for or against.

James is a dead man; his life is given and taken--bought (if you like it better) and sold; no memorial can help--no defalcation of a faithful Mr.David hurt him.

Blow high, blow low, there will be no pardon for James Stewart: and take that for said! The question is now of myself: am I to stand or fall?
and I do not deny to you that I am in some danger.

But will Mr.David Balfour consider why?
It is not because I have pushed the case unduly against James; for that, I am sure of condonation.