You are to hang for a dirty murder about boddle-pieces.

Your personal part in it, the treacherous one of holding the poor wretch in talk, your accomplices a pack of ragged Highland gillies.

And it can be shown, my great Mr.Balfour--it can be shown, and it _will_ be shown, trust _me_ that has a finger in the pie--it can be shown, and shall be shown, that you were paid to do it.

I think I can see the looks go round the court when I adduce my evidence, and it shall appear that you, a young man of education, let yourself be corrupted to this shocking act for a suit of cast clothes, a bottle of Highland spirits, and three-and-fivepence-halfpenny in copper money." There was a touch of the truth in these words that knocked me like a blow: clothes, a bottle of _usquebaugh_, and three-and-fivepence-halfpenny in change made up, indeed, the most of what Alan and I had carried from Aucharn; and I saw that some of James's people had been blabbing in their dungeons.
"You see I know more than you fancied," he resumed in triumph.

"And as for giving it this turn, great Mr.David, you must not suppose the Government of Great Britain and Ireland will ever be stuck for want of evidence.