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I do it most gladly. Would you had authority to command the release of all my prisoners.

It is only those condemned for witchcraft, whose enlargement I have authority to command.

But there is a prisoner condemned for murder whom thou, James Fatheringham, knowest to be innocent, and therefore thou art by nature authorised, yea, compelled, to demand his release,—I mean, the reversion of his sentence.

Murrey of Torwood in the land of the living!

No thanks to thee that I am so! To desert me, and leave the country too, circumstanced as thou knewest me to be,—the only witness of that fatal quarrel,—was it the act of a friend, of a Christian, of a man?

No, neither of a Christian, nor a heathen, had it been a voluntary act. But you were not yet in custody, when I left the country, with no intention of going further than the southern coast of Ireland, to visit a dying relation.