Your grace hae na been twenty-four hours awa' fra Lunnun." Without waiting to answer the host, the young duke hurried out, and walked rapidly off to the telegraph office, which was at the railway station.
"Ye see yon lad ?" said the landlord to his wife.

"He hanna been a day fra his bride, and yet he expects to hae a letter or a message frae her every minute.

Aweel we hae a' been fules in our time!" So saying the philosophical host of the Arondelle Arms gave his mind to the service of his numerous customers, who had come from the trial at Banff very hungry and thirsty, and now filled the bar-room with their persons, and all the air with their complaints.
They were not at all satisfied with the verdict.

They had had a murder, and they had a right to have a hanging.

They had been defrauded of their prospect of this second entertainment, and they were not well pleased.
Meanwhile, the duke hurried off to the telegraph office, to see if by any chance a telegram had been received there for him and detained.
When he entered the little den, he found the operator at work.