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 *lence, and not of timidity, fired at this insolence, and he answered: "You are a very ignorant and impertinent fellow. I consider my daughter and family disgraced by a connection with a strolling adventurer." "Do you know," said the other, loudly, "whom you are talking to, you silly old fool?" "Old I am," replied the laird, "but not so old as to bear an insult from a low scoundrel. So, sir, leave this room instantly. I shall take care of my unfortunate daughter, but for you, a single shilling of mine shall never pass through your hands again." "O, I see," said O'Rourke, "it is all as I suspected, that old villain, colonel Hamilton, has for his own purposes been working on your poor weak head." Etterick, incensed at this, proceeded to such violence as his feebleness would admit; and the fellow, with unmanly rage exerting his strength, pushed