CHAPTER IX.
AFTER THE DISCOVERY.
"Sir, if you please, I request that this witness be immediately placed under examination," said Lord Arondelle, who sat, with pale, stern visage, among the spectators, now addressing the coroner.
"Yes, certainly, my lord.

Let the man be called," answered the latter.
A short, stout, red-haired and freckle-faced boy, clothed in a well-worn suit of gray tweed, came forward and was duly sworn.
"What is your name, my lad ?" inquired the coroner's clerk.
"Cuddie McGill, an' it please your worship," replied the shock-headed youth.
"Your age ?" "Anan ?" "How old are you ?" "Ou, ay, just nineteen come St.Andrew's Eve, at night." "Where do you live ?" "Wi' my maister, Gillie Ferguson, the saddler, at Lone." "Well now, then, what do you know about this case ?" inquired the clerk, who, pen in hand, had been busily taking down the unimportant, preliminary answers of the witness under examination.
"Aweel, thin your worship, I ken just naething of ony account; but I just happen speak what I saw yestreen under the castle wa', and doctor here, he wad hae me come my ways and tell your honor; its naething just," replied Cuddie McGill, scratching his shock head.
"But tell us what you saw." "Aweel, then, your worship, I had been hard at wark a' the day, and could na get awa to see the wedding deecorations.

But after my wark was dune and I had my bit aitmeal cake and parritch, I e'en cam' my way over the brig to hae a luke at them." "Well, and what did you see besides the decorations ?" "An it please your worship, as I cam through the thick shrubbery I spied a lassie, standing under the balcony on the east side o' the castle wa'." "At what hour was this ?" "I dinna ken preceesely.

It may hae been ten o'clock; for I ken the moon was about twa hours high." "Ay, well; go on." "I hid mysel' in the firs and watchit the lassie; for I said to mysel' it wair a tryste wi' her lad, and I behoove to find out wha they were.

Sae I watchit the lassie.