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As he drew near the Scottish border, by the western side, he observed a person journeying alone, who seemed very anxious to avoid him. BrueeBruce [sic] stopt this suspicious-looking personage, and, on eloseclose [sic] examination, found him to be a messenger charged with a letter from Comyn to the English king, in which he strongly advised Edward to lose no time in either putting BrueeBruce [sic] in eloseclose [sic] confinement, or despatching him at once. Incensed at the villany of Comyn, BrueeBruce [sic] stabbed the messenger. BrueeBruce [sic] then hurried on for the eastlecastle [sic] of LoehmabenLochmaben [sic].

Having there learned that Comyn was at Dumfries, he hastened thither, inspired with feelings of the deepest indignation against this treaeheroustreacherous [sic] nobleman. On his arrival in the town, he found that Comyn was at that moment engaged at his devotions in the ehurehchurch [sic]. But this consideration did not suspend his purpose. He hastened to the sacred place, and upbraided him with his perfidy. At last his resentment and passion rose to so violent a height, that he drew his dagger and stabbed him to the heart before the altar,—an atrocious deed, which no injury, however flagrant, could at all justify or even extenuate. No sooner had the crime been commited than BrueeBruce [sic] felt all the horrors of remorse he rushed out of the church