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 5 ilty person. My eyes were steadily fixed on obert Stewart during this speech, and I observed! face tarn red and palo by turns. The marks of Jilt were visible, I thought, on his countenance ; t when Mr Thomson ceased speaking, he had re- vered himself sufficiently to exclaim, "What good that do ? D'ye think the man that killed the lass d hae the face to come here? or, if he was here, w could you find him out by the sted o' his foot? Thunder folk may ha'e shoon o' the same size, and made by ae shoemaker, they may be a' the same Ape too. It may mak innocent folk suspected, d will do mair ill than good; sae for my part 1 Inna consent till't. Come, let us be off lads. As spake, he pulled some of his companions by the m, and turned towards the gate, with the intention making his escape. “The first man that leaves le church-yard before he is examined," cried Mr Umson from among the crowd; "will be taken up a suspected person, and committed to jail. I Ive the authority of the sheriff for saying so.” А urmur of approbation succeeded his speech, and Jewart turned back intimidated, and seated him- f on a grave-stone at a little distance, folding his. ms across his breast, and kicking his heels against e of the feet of the stone, in order to appear very ich at his ease. As soon as silence was obtained, Thomson, in a few simple words, refuted Stewart's jections, and at the same time held up to public view Johnson's drawing of the footstep, to convince je people that there was something so remarkably culiar in its shape, there could be little doubt of ding out the person to whom it belonged, by tho sans proposed. Every one now seemed eager to ve his shoes'examined, and hastened to seat lim- f on the grass. Two shoemakers were employed take the measurement, and Mr Johnson accom- nied them with the drawing in his hand. Stewart