EXERTION When Colonel Talbot entered the breakfast-parlour next morning, he learned from Waverley's servant that our hero had been abroad at an early hour, and was not yet returned.

The morning was well advanced before he again appeared, He arrived out of breath, but with an air of joy that astonished Colonel Talbot.
'There,' said he, throwing a paper on the table, 'there is my morning's work .-- Alick, pack up the Colonel's clothes.

Make haste, make haste.' The Colonel examined the paper with astonishment.

It was a pass from the Chevalier to Colonel Talbot, to repair to Leith, or any other port in possession of his Royal Highness's troops, and there to embark for England or elsewhere, at his free pleasure; he only giving his parole of honour not to bear arms against the house of Stuart for the space of a twelvemonth.
'In the name of God,' said the Colonel, his eyes sparkling with eagerness, 'how did you obtain this ?' 'I was at the Chevalier's levee as soon as he usually rises.

He was gone to the camp at Duddingston.