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 we were such intimates,)' may it please your Excellency to accept my humble congratulations on the victory'—hum—hum—'Blessed be his Majesty's army. I pray you to understand I have my people under arms to take and intercept all fugitives, and have already several prisoners,' and so forth. Subscribed Basil Olifant—You know the fellow by name, I suppose?"

"A relative of Lady Margaret Bellenden, is he not?"

"Ay," replied Grahame, "and heir male of her father's family, though a distant one, and moreover a suitor to the fair Edith, though discarded as an unworthy one; but, above all, an admirer of the estate of Tillietudlem, and all thereunto belonging."

"He takes an ill mode of recommending himself," said Morton, suppressing his own feelings, "to the family at Tillietudlem by corresponding with our unhappy party."