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tion over a moderate potation of wine, to which they were left by Mrs Macgillivray, he expressed a wish to retire to rest.

A candle was accordingly called for, and Lochandhu preceding him up the wooden stair, ushered him into a bed-room, hardly more than large enough to contain a bed, so small, as to convince him at first sight, that he must double himself up in it. The roof of the chamber was so low, that he saw he could only be comfortable in it while sitting. There Lochandhu, after satis fying himself that his guest had bed-clothes enough, and that he wanted for nothing, left him and his servant together.

O'Gollochar's face very legibly expressed that he had something to communicate, but being occupied for some time with unpacking and arranging his master's things, some minutes elapsed before he opened the subject. At length, being able to hold no longer, he dropped on the bed the shirt he was unfolding, and, turning to Amherst,

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Och, dear Master," exclaimed he, "who do you think I saw yonder at the inn where we baited ?faith, an' I need not say who, for the divil

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a soul it was after all, unless it ware the divil himself, or one of his babes. But be that as it may, any how, may I never stir if it wasn't the same cratur or ghost we seen at the well, and in the Cove of Aiglesholme. I was all alone by myself in the stable, only Hamish, that's nobody at all, seeing he can't spake English, was lying snoring among the straw, in the dark stall at the farther end, when, as I was rising up, after examining Broadbottom's heels, who, by the bye, has got a plaguy cut under his fitlock amang some o' them stones, I happens to glance at an open hole in the wall, which would make a very good window in Ireland, and which, I see, often sarves the same purpose here, when, what does I Í see, but the horrid face of her girning thorough at me? Och, merciful Vargin! says I, and wid that down I swaps on my knees among the dung, when venturing to look up again, and seeing that the ugly face of her was gone, I makes bould to rise and look out at the door, but not a bone of her was there, either up or down, east or west.”

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Amherst thought it unnecessary to inform his servant that he also had seen this strange vision. He did what he could to laugh O'Gollochar out

of his superstitious fears by affecting to suppose it merely the accidental appearance of some poor old woman. But it would not do, for though he succeeded in silencing him, he saw that he had by no means shaken, his belief that he had seen a supernatural being, He therefore changed the subject, by putting questions to him about the wound Broadbottom had received, which O'Gollochar assured him was so severe, as to have made him very lame for the latter part of the journey.

"If I had gotten a word of your honour afore you went into the house, I would have axed you to look at it yourself," said Cornelius.

Most young men are fond of pretending to a knowledge of farriery, and Amherst, partly from this cause, and partly, to satisfy O'Gollochar, told him that he would willingly go out to examine the creature's limb even yet, if there was a light in the stable.

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"Sure, Hamish is there, your honour, waiting to help me to supper them up, and he has got mire fir torches burning, enough to set the stable. on fire."

Amherst, therefore, bade O'Gollochar show him

the way, and, in his slippers and dressing-gown as he was, he followed him gently down stairs, and across the court to the stable. After looking at the cut, and prescribing a bath of spirits and vinegar, he left O'Gollochar to take his own time and way of procuring the materials from Mary. Believing that Lochandhu and his Lady were already long since asleep, he lifted the latch and let himself in with the utmost silence. As he had his foot on the first step of the stair, however, he heard Lochandhu's voice issuing in a low tone from the parlour, and he was surprised to hear that of Mrs Macgillivray also, who, to all appearance, had retired to bed more than two hours before. That he might not disturb them he slipped silently up stairs to bed. But if the reader will listen at the door, he will hear what would have chained Amherst to the spot, had he caught but a few words of the conversation.

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--" Do you think that he's asleep, wife ?” said Lochandhu.

Nae doubt but he is," replied she; "for it's mair nor a quarter o' an hour sin I heard his man's foot going to the stable, after seeing him till his bed."

"Well, then, to return to what I was saying,"

continued Lochandhu," Sandy, I tell you, shall never persuade me-Whatever I may have done, or whatever I may yet do, I will never play the traitor to this young man. I have my honour, as well as other people, though perhaps it may be of a particular and convenient kind."

"I'm glad to hear ye say sae, Lochandhu," said Mrs Macgillivray; "I've seen some awfu' sights sin I cam to thae hills.-Oh my very heart grows sick at the thought!-And, troth, when I saw the bonny young lad come hame wi' you, I kentna what to think.-You have ta’en a heavy weight aff me. But what, after a', garred ye ask him to Lochandhu? ye might hae guessed aforehand that Sandy wad bather yere vera life about him."

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Sandy is a perfect brute, wife," replied Lochandhu. "He already begins to be quite intolerable, and to presume beyond bearing upon his services. But I am resolved to hold him down. He shall never dictate to me. The fellow has more of the insatiable rapacity of the wolf about him, than the generosity of the lion. He cannot understand, that the pleasure of giving way to the common feelings of humanity, may sometimes

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