w such great truths at the first morsel. So I took his advice,
and sent a line to my reverend father, who was not long in coming, and
great was the jailer's wonderment when he saw all the great Christian
noblemen of the land sign my bond of freedom.

My reverend father took this matter greatly to heart, and bestirred
himself in the good cause till the transgressors were ashamed to shew
their faces. My illustrious companion was not idle: I wondered that he
came not to me in prison, nor at my release; but he was better
employed, in stirring up the just to the execution of God's decrees;
and he succeeded so well that my brother and all his associates had
nearly fallen victims to their wrath. But many were wounded, bruised,
and imprisoned, and much commotion prevailed in the city. For my part,
I was greatly strengthened in my resolution by the anathemas of my
reverend father, who, privately (that is in a family capacity) in his
prayers, gave up my father and brother, according to the flesh, to
Satan, making it plain to all my senses of perception that they were
being given up of God, to be devoured by fiends of men, at their will
and pleasure, and that whosoever should slay them would do God good
service.

The next morning my illustrious friend met me at an early hour, and he
was greatly overjoyed at hearing my sentiments now chime so much in
unison with his own. I said: "I longed for the day and the hour that I
might look my brother in the face at Gilgal, and visit on him the
iniquity of his father and himself, for that I was now strengthened and
prepared for the deed."

"I have been watching the steps and movements of the profligate one,"
said he, "and, lo, I will take you straight to his presence. Let your
heart be as the heart of the lion, and your arms strong as the shekels
of brass, and swift to avenge as the bolt that descendeth from heaven,
for the blood of the just and the good hath long flowed in Scotland.
But already is the day of their avengement begun; the hero is at length
arisen who shall send all such as bear enmity to the true Church, or
trust in works of their own, to Tophet!"

Thus encouraged, I followed my friend, who led me directly to the same
court in which I had chastised the miscreant on the foregoing day; and,
behold, there was the same group again assembled. They eyed me with
terror in their looks, as I walked among them and eyed them with looks
of disapprobation and rebuke; and I saw that the