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 10 up accordingly with a plate of potatoes soup for M 'Grory, and when he got ta the top of the stair, Haggart came out upon him from the closet, and the push- ing open of the door knocked the plate out of his hand; he then stick him one blow with the stone, dashed him down, and without the loss of a moment, pulled the key of the cuter door from his pocket; he gave only one blow with the stone and threw it down. Dunbar picked it uр, but no more blows were given, so that Mor- rin must have received his o:her blows in falling. Haggart observed Dunbar on the top of him, rifling his breast for the key which he had got. Simson had a hold of Morrin's shoulders, and was beat- ing his back upon the steps of the stair.- Haggart rushed past then, crossed the stair as speedily as he could, pulled the key from his pocket, and opened the enter door. On getting out at the door he ran round the east corner of the jail wall, and then walked rapidly round the back-street, and round a great part of the town, till he came to the back of the King's Arms Inn. Dunbar made up to him, and that very moment they saw a policeman coming right up to meet them; on this they wheeled about and ran, but Dunbar was