I will study this matter, and examine into it; and I shall most certainly receive your informations against him; but I must have better opportunities for making myself acquainted with the facts.

In the meantime keep your own secret, and leave the rest to me." When Greatrakes reached Rathfillan House the whole family attended him to the sick bed of Charles.

Woodward was there, and appeared to feel a deep interest in the fate of his brother.

Greatrakes, on looking at him, said, before he applied the sanative power which God had placed in his constitution,-- "This young man is dying of a slow and subtle poison, which some person under the roof of this house has been administering to him in small doses." As he uttered these words he fixed his eyes upon Woodward, whose face quailed and blanched under the power and significance of his gaze.
"Sir," replied Lindsay, "with the greatest respect for you, there is not a single individual under this roof who would injure him.

He is beloved by every one.