Then came the disclosures of Tammas Haggart, who was never properly secured by the Auld Lichts until Mr.Dishart took him in hand.

It was Tammas who wrote anonymous letters to Mr.Byars about the scarlet woman, and, strange to say, this led to the club's being allowed to meet in the town-house.

The minister, after many days, discovered who his correspondent was, and succeeded in inveigling the stone-breaker to the manse.

There, with the door snibbed, he opened out on Tammas, who, after his usual manner when hard pressed, pretended to be deaf.

This sudden fit of deafness so exasperated the minister that he flung a book at Tammas.