And chiefly, I think, Mr.Balfour himself might be obliged.

For you talk of a third accomplice, but Mr.Balfour (in my view) has very much the appearance of a fourth." "Allow me, sirs!" interposed Stewart the Writer.

"There is another view.
Here we have a witness--never fash whether material or not--a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old cold ruins on the Bass.

Move that and see what dirt you fling on the proceedings! Sirs, this is a tale to make the world ring with! It would be strange, with such a grip as this, if we couldnae squeeze out a pardon for my client." "And suppose we took up Mr.Balfour's cause to-morrow ?" said Stewart Hall.

"I am much deceived or we should find so many impediments thrown in our path, as that James should have been hanged before we had found a court to hear us.