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 account of the money he had in his hands. The man answered, he had settled with the laird before his departure. "Don't tell me of the laird, I shall be laird here. What cash is there at the banker's? I suppose about seven hundred pounds; give me a draft for five hundred. I want it immediately." "You a draft for five hundred! I cannot give you a draft for a farthing without my master's orders." "Cannot you write a hand like your master's?" "Sir," said the steward, in indignant rage, "you may try that expedient if you please: and so good morning to you." As the steward was a very strong athletic man, and the hero of the country for all manly exercises, the preacher, gigantic as he was, did not choose forcibly to prevent his departure. Calling for his horse, he rode to Selkirk, repaired to the bank, and being known as the son-in