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 me from intended murder, with every circumtance that lives within thy memory.”

“The tale is very hort, my on, nor has it ecaped my recollection. Returning from the borders of England, where I had been with a herd of cattle, and omewhere near the pot we now ret on, I at me down to take refrehment; and while thus employed, I aw a man with omething in his arms glide among the trees. Apprehending him to be one of the numerous banditti which at that time lurked in thee parts, I crept, unperceived, behind a thicket, hoping to ecape his obervation; but I carce reached my hiding place when he approached, and with much gentlenes laid what he held in his arms on the gras, and unfolded the mantle, which I perceived contained an infant. From the ruffian’s manner, I thought his buines was to murder it; and yet he heitated, ighed heavily, and kied the babe, which all this time lay tretching its little limbs and miling in his face. At length, plucking up as it were a determined reolution, he drew from his boom a dagger, and at the moment when he had thrown remore aide, and was prepared to trike, I ruhed from my ambuh–eized his uplifted arm, and natched the weapon from his trembling hand. Without peaking, he intantly darted into the thicket part of the foret, while I raied the infant in my arms, and hatened on my journey, taking a different road than was uually travelled, to ecape puruit, and, thank God! reached my cottage in afety. Never hall I forget the tranport of Cicely when I gave thee to her (for we had no children). She hugged thee to her bread with as much fondnes as if thou wert indeed her own, and brought thee up, Glanville, with as much care.”

“And never, my dear father (for I will till call thee o),” aid Glanville) [sic], “will I forget the debt I owe my mother and yourelf.” He then related to the atonihed Jolet the adventure of the preceding night, and informed him of his intention to reviit the catle after the cloe of day. The honet peaant, alarmed for his afety, propoed accompanying him, but Glanville