"I am here to lay before you certain information, by which I shall convince you Alan had no hand whatever in the killing of Glenure." The Advocate appeared for a moment at a stick, sitting with pursed lips, and blinking his eyes upon me like an angry cat.

"Mr.Balfour," he said at last, "I tell you pointedly you go an ill way for your own interests." "My lord," I said, "I am as free of the charge of considering my own interests in this matter as your lordship.

As God judges me, I have but the one design, and that is to see justice executed and the innocent go clear.

If in pursuit of that I come to fall under your lordship's displeasure, I must bear it as I may." At this he rose from his chair, lit a second candle, and for a while gazed upon me steadily.

I was surprised to see a great change of gravity fallen upon his face, and I could have almost thought he was a little pale.
"You are either very simple, or extremely the reverse, and I see that I must deal with you more confidentially," says he.