worship after this,
Anton Lennox ordered four of the strongest and biggest men to sit upon
John Gib, streeked out on the floor, as men sit together upon a bench in
the kirk at sermon-hearing. And we were glad when we fell on this plan,
for it discouraged the devil more than anything, so that he acknowledged
the power of the gospel and quit his roaring.

Yet I think all this rough play kept up our hearts, and stayed us from
thinking all the time upon that day of our bitter, final testifying,
which was coming so soon. To make an end now of Muckle John Gib, I heard
that he was sent by ship to the colonies, and that in America he gained
much honour among the heathen for his converse with the devil. Nor did
the godly men that are there, ever discover Anton Lennox's weighty
method of exorcism--than which I ween there is none better, for even the
devil needs breath as well as another.

But for all this, there was never an hour that chimed, but I would wake
and remember that at the sound of a trumpet the port might any moment be
opened and I be summoned forth to meet my doom. And Anton Lennox dealt
with me there in the Cannongate Tolbooth for my soul's peace, and that
very faithfully. For there were not wanting among the prisoners those
that made no scruple to call me a sword-and-buckler Covenanter, because
I would not follow them in all their protests and remonstrances. But
Anton Lennox warred with them with the weapons of speech for the both of
us, and told them how that I had already witnessed a good confession and
that before many witnesses. He said also that there would not be wanting
One, when I had overpassed my next stage, to make confession of William
Gordon before the angels of heaven. Which saying made them to cavil no
more.

CHAPTER LIV.

ROBBERY ON THE KING'S HIGHWAY.

Now that which follows concerns not myself, but Maisie Lennox and others
that were at this time forth of the Tolbooth. Yet, because the story
properly comes in here, I pray the reader to suffer it gladly, for
without it I cannot came to my tale's ending, as I must speedily do. How
I came to know it, is no matter now, but shall without doubt afterwards
appear.

While Anton Lennox and I lay in the Tolbooth, those that loved us were
not idle. Wat moved Kate and Kate moved Roger McGhie of Balmaghie. So
that he set off to London to see the King, in order to get remission for
me, and if need be to pay my fine, because there was nothing he wo