It is true' (looking at the date of the paper) 'there was a foolish report some time ago to the purport here quoted, but it is entirely false.

Sir Everard is gone down to Waverley-Honour, freed from all uneasiness, unless upon your own account.

But you are in peril yourself--your name is in every proclamation--warrants are out to apprehend you.

How and when did you come here ?' Edward told his story at length, suppressing his quarrel with Fergus; for being himself partial to Highlanders, he did not wish to give any advantage to the Colonel's national prejudice against them.
'Are you sure it was your friend Glen's footboy you saw dead in Clifton Moor ?' 'Quite positive.' 'Then that little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows, for cut-throat was written in his face; though' (turning to Lady Emily) 'it was a very handsome face too .-- But for you, Edward, I wish you would go down again to Cumberland, or rather I wish you had never stirred from thence, for there is an embargo on all the seaports, and a strict search for the adherents of the Pretender; and the tongue of that confounded woman will wag in her head like the clack of a mill, till somehow or other she will detect Captain Butler to be a feigned personage,' 'Do you know anything,' asked Waverley, 'of my fellow traveller ?' 'Her husband was my sergeant-major for six years; she was a buxom widow, with a little money--he married her--was steady, and got on by being a good drill.

I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connexions.