ind that. Death pays all debts; it will pay that too."

The horror of the bystanders began now to give way to indignation; and
the sight of a favourite companion murdered in the midst of them, the
provocation being, in their opinion, so utterly inadequate to the
excess of vengeance, might have induced them to kill the perpetrator of
the deed even upon the very spot. The constable, however, did his duty
on this occasion, and, with the assistance of some of the more
reasonable persons present, procured horses to guard the prisoner to
Carlisle, to abide his doom at the next assizes. While the escort was
preparing, the prisoner neither expressed the least interest nor
attempted the slightest reply. Only, before he was carried from the
fatal apartment, he desired to look at the dead body, which, raised
from the floor, had been deposited upon the large table (at the head of
which Harry Wakefield had presided but a few minutes before, full of
life, vigour, and animation), until the surgeons should examine the
mortal wound. The face of the corpse was decently covered with a
napkin. To the surprise and horror of the bystanders, which displayed
itself in a general "Ah!" drawn through clenched teeth and half-shut
lips, Robin Oig removed the cloth, and gazed with a mournful but steady
eye on the lifeless visage, which had been so lately animated, that the
smile of good-humoured confidence in his own strength, of conciliation
at once and contempt towards his enemy, still curled his lip. While
those present expected that the wound, which had so lately flooded the
apartment with gore, would send forth fresh streams at the touch of the
homicide, Robin Oig replaced the covering with the brief exclamation,
"He was a pretty man!"

My story is nearly ended. The unfortunate Highlander stood his trial
at Carlisle. I was myself present, and as a young Scottish lawyer, or
barrister at least, and reputed a man of some quality, the politeness
of the sheriff of Cumberland offered me a place on the bench. The
facts of the case were proved in the manner I have related them; and
whatever might be at first the prejudice of the audience against a
crime so un-English as that of assassination from revenge, yet when the
rooted national prejudices of the prisoner had been explained, which
made him consider himself as stained with indelible dishonour when
subjected to personal violence, when his previous patience, moderation,
and endurance wer