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 garden. After waiting impatiently for some time, he saw the glimmering of a candle, and he entered the library, where he found Diana alone and much flnrriedflurried [sic]. On her inquiring the cause of his visit at so unseasonable an hour, he pretended to have come for Orlando Furioso, and turning over some books, he descried a man's glove lying on the table. Diana, blushing deeply, said it was her grandfather's, which she kept as a relic; but as this explanation did not satisfy Frank, she told him that it belonged to a friend whom she honoured, esteemed, and loved. Frank made some sareasticsarcastic [sic] observations, and Miss Vernon told him that she would diseoverdiscover [sic] no more than she had already done; but that, as they were soon to part for ever, she begged that they might still be friends, and gave him a letter she had reeeivedreceived [sic] from London, containing the intelligence of Rashleigh having carried off bills to a very large amount belonging to his father, with which he had departed for Scotland, and that Frank's relatives wished him to repair to Glasgow in searehsearch [sic] of the fugitive.

Next morning Frank prepared to leave Osbaldistone Hall; but his feelings were much agitated, both by the state of his father's affairs, and on account of his separation from Miss Vernon. At Glasgow, he was to meet with Owen, who had already gone their in pursuit of Rashleigh; but, being unacquainted with the road to Scotland, he repaired to Andrew FairserieeFairservice [sic] for instruetioninstruction [sic] respecting the route he should pursue, and found him reading a volume of Dr. Lightfoot aloud, to frighten away the ghaists, as he said, by godly exercise. Andrew offered to accomany him, as lie had been long thinking of flitting from Osbaldistone Hall; and, accordingly, it was agreed that they should set off together next morning by five o'clock. Frank was up by two o'clock, and, after leaving a letter on the table for his uneleuncle [sic], he saddled his horse, and arrived at the cottage of Andrew Fairservice, who was already mounted on a naig, and waiting to attend him. Frank ordered him to ride as quickly as possible, and Andrew pushed on his naig at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour, by unfrequented paths, through moors and bogs, and over hill and dale, without diminishing his speed. Frank, unable to keep up with him, hallooed in vain to him to stop ; but on threatening to blow out his brains, Andrew drew up his naig, and apologized for riding so fast, by saying, that "he had taken a stirrup-cup of brandy at parting with his old cronies, which made him a little flighty that morning." Having arrived at Glasgow on a Sunday, when the people were all in church, they alighted at an inn, and Frank inquired at the landlady for Messrs Macvittie, MaefinMacfin [sic], and Company, from whom he expeetedexpected [sic] to hear of Mr. Owen; but he was told that these good people would be attending public worship at the Barony Laigh Kirk. Frank proceeded thither, accompanied by Andrew Fairservice, and was