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Mr JOHNSON from among the crowd, ‘will be taken up as a suspected person, and committed to jail. I have the authority of the sheriff for saying so.’ A murmur of approbation succeeded his speech, and STEWART turned back intimidated, and seated himself on a grave-stone at a little distance, folding his arms across his breast, and kicking his heels against one of the feet of the stone, in order to appear very much at his ease. As soon as silence was obtained, Mr THOMSON, in a few simple words, refuted STEWART'S objections, and at the same time held up to public view Mr JOHNSON'S drawing of the footstep, to convince the people that there was some- thing so remarkably peculiar in its shape, there could be little doubt of finding out the person to whom it belonged by the means proposed. Every one seemed now eager to have his shoes examined, and hastened to set himself on the grass. Two shoemakers were employed to take the measurement, and Mr JOHNSON accom- panied them with the drawing in his hand. STEWART had placed himself in the middle of the crowd, and I saw him make one or two unsuccessful attempts to shift his seat, so as to escape examination. When at last his turn came, his colour suddenly changed to a deadly pale, and with a horrid groan