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Rh, "that he is going to marry the foreign lady we heard of?"

"You heard yourself," answered Craigengelt, "what Captain Westenho said about it, and the great preparation made for their blythsome bridal."

"Captain Westenho," replied Bucklaw, "has rather too much of your own cast about him, Craigy, to make what Sir William would call a "famous witness." He drinks deep, plays deep, swears deep, and I suspect can lie and cheat a little into the bargain. Useful qualities, Craigy, if kept in their proper sphere, but which have a little too much of the freebooter to make a figure in a court of evidence."

"Well then," said Craigengelt, "will you believe Colonel Douglas Ashton, who heard the Marquis of A say in a public circle, but not aware that he was within ear-shot, that his kinsman had made a better arrangement for himself than to give his father's land for the pale-cheeked daughter of a