blood nor blemish; and, above all, he insisted on the evidence of a
number of surgeons, who declared that both the wounds which the
deceased had received had been given behind. One of these was below the
left arm, and a slight one; the other was quite through the body, and
both evidently inflicted with the same weapon, a two-edged sword, of
the same dimensions as that worn by Drummond.

Upon the whole, there was a division in the court, but a majority
decided it. Drummond was pronounced guilty of the murder; outlawed for
not appearing, and a high reward offered for his apprehension. It was
with the greatest difficulty that he escaped on board of a small
trading vessel, which landed him in Holland, and from thence, flying
into Germany, he entered into the service of the Emperor Charles VI.
Many regretted that he was not taken, and made to suffer the penalty
due for such a crime, and the melancholy incident became a pulpit theme
over a great part of Scotland, being held up as a proper warning to
youth to beware of such haunts of vice and depravity, the nurses of all
that is precipitate, immoral, and base, among mankind.

After the funeral of this promising and excellent young man, his father
never more held up his head. Miss Logan, with all her art, could not
get him to attend to any worldly thing, or to make any settlement
whatsoever of his affairs, save making her over a present of what
disposable funds he had about him. As to his estates, when they were
mentioned to him, he wished them all in the bottom of the sea, and
himself along with them. But, whenever she mentioned the circumstance
of Thomas Drummond having been the murderer of his son, he shook his
head, and once made the remark that "It was all a mistake, a gross and
fatal error; but that God, who had permitted such a flagrant deed,
would bring it to light in his own time and way." In a few weeks he
followed his son to the grave, and the notorious Robert Wringhim took
possession of his estates as the lawful son of the late laird, born in
wedlock, and under his father's roof. The investiture was celebrated by
prayer, singing of psalms, and religious disputation. The late guardian
and adopted father, and the mother of the new laird, presided on the
grand occasion, making a conspicuous figure in all the work of the day;
and, though the youth himself indulged rather more freely in the bottle
than he had ever been seen to do before, it was agreed by all present
th