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 6 had placed himself in the middle of the crowd, ar I saw him make one or two unsuccessful attemp to shift his sert, so as to escape examination. Whe at last his dau'n came, his colour suddenly change to a deadly pale, and with a horrid groan, he fe senseless on the ground. He was restored by t application of some water, which was quickly pri cured, and looking wildly round him, he exclaime “ You cannot say that I did it! it was dark---W saw me? "God Almighty saw you, unhappy you man!" said Mr Jahnson, in a tone which thrill through my heart ; for he had now taken the dime sions of Stewart's shoe, and found it correspond every particular to the copy he bad drawn. T murderer, for I had now no doubt that this was having recovered his strength, started up on his fe and drawing a sharp-pointed knife from his pock threatened to stab to tho heart the man that la hands on him. He then made a desperate spring and before any person had sufficient presence miud to prevent him, reached the church-yard we which he cleared without difficulty, but losing, balanco when he reached the other side, he stumb forward, and fell on the point of his knife. He nowi oyertaken and secured, and as he was los mich blood, he was conveyed to the mansc, wh happened to be the nearest house; the surgeon, was present, attended him for the purpose of dret ing his wound. The knifo had entered the bowe and made a dangerous wound, which the surge immediately pronounced likely to prove fall The unfortunate wretch overboard the opinion the surgeon, and cried out with a savage joy, wht filled every person present with horror, " Then disappoint the law yet. If I could na mak escape in ae way, I'll do it in another. Sleep, sle they say, it's a sleep.”* Alas! young man," Mr Thomson, shuddering as he spako, “indi