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CHAPTER VII
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"If I die, remember that.
I did my best to anger Davie, and I struck him first.

I deserved all I have had to suffer." After this, however, Robert recovered rapidly, and in two months he was quite well.
"David," said the minister to him one morning, "your trial is nearly over.

I have a message from Captain Laird to Robert Leslie.

Laird sails to-night; his ship has dropped down the river a mile, and Robert must leave when the tide serves; that will be at five o'clock." For Robert had shrunk from going again into his Glasgow life, and had determined to sail with his friend Laird at once for New York.

There was no one he loved more dearly than David and Dr.Morrison, and with them his converse had been constant and very happy and hopeful.


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