17/36 I was sent after the old Scotchman." "Didn't it occur to you that the man to whose interest it was to have that warrant had probably got hold of it ?" "Yes; and that he'd burnt it, too. A man doesn't from choice carry a death-warrant next his heart. It would make a bad poultice." "What now," cried the little man to the blacksmith, who had been listening to the conversation, and in his amazement and confusion had unconsciously pulled at the reins of his horse, and brought it to a stand. |