ations of loyalty, said that he thought that Logan had been in the
Gowrie conspiracy. Logan then asked for an oath of secrecy, promising
'to be the best sight you ever saw,' and taking out 12_l._ (Scots) bade
Sprot buy corn for his children. Asked who were present at the scene of
the supper, Sprot named eight yeomen. 'The lady' (Lady Restalrig) 'was
also present at table that night, and at her rising she said, "The Devil
delight in such a feast, that will make all the children weep hereafter,"
and this she spoke, as she went past the end of the table. And, after
entering the other chamber, she wept a while, 'and we saw her going up
and down the chamber weeping.'

A fortnight later, Lady Restalrig blamed Bower for the selling of
Fastcastle. Bower appealed to Logan; it was Logan's fault, not his.
'One of two things,' said Bower, 'must make you sell your lands; either
you think your children are bastards, or you have planned some treason.'
The children were not those of Lady Restalrig, but by former marriages.
Logan replied, 'If I had all the land between the Orient and the
Occident, I would sell the same, and, if I could not get money for it, I
would give it to good fellows.' On another occasion Logan said to Bower,
'I am for no land, I told you before and will tell you again. You have
not learned the art of memory.'

In fact, Logan did sell, not only Fastcastle, but Flemington and
Restalrig. We know how the Scot then clung to his acres. Why did Logan
sell all? It does not appear, as we have shown, that he was in debt. If
he had been, his creditors would have had him 'put to the horn,'
proclaimed a recalcitrant debtor, and the record thereof would be found
in the Privy Council Register. But there is no such matter. Sprot
supposed that Logan wished to turn his estates into money, to be ready
for flight, if the truth ever came out. The haste to sell all his lands
is certainly a suspicious point against Logan. He kept on giving Sprot
money (hush money, and for forgeries to defraud others, sometimes) and
taking Sprot's oath of secrecy.

A remarkable anecdote follows; remarkable on this account. In the letter
(II) which Logan is said by Sprot to have written to Bower (July 18,
1600) occurs the phrase, 'Keep all things very secret, that my lord my
brother get no knowledge of our purposes, _for I rather be eirdit
quik_'--would rather be buried alive (p. 184). This 'my lord my brother'
is obviously meant for Al