Why, where should you? We have none, you know, but two or three French fellows, who, I believe, are little better than garçons apothecaires." "But the man will bleed to death. "Poor fellow! But it will be a thousand men's fate before night; so come along." "I cannot; I tell you he is son of a tenant of my uncle's." (TARA< of bam: We must O, if he's a 'follower of yours, he must be looked to; I'll send Callum to you; but bas ed diaoul ceade millia molligheart," con tinued the impatient Chieftain,- what 102, 9199012 (tw Lieder, her made an old soldier, like Bradwardine, sift saremer to send dying men here to cumber us?" Callum came with his usual alertness, of mulle bom and, indeed, Waverley rather gained than lost in the opinion of the Highlanders, by his anxiety about the wounded man. They would not have understood the general philanthropy, which rendered it almost impossible for Waverley to have past any vorg 503 ddaw porbescord bas person in such distress; but apprehending Dood & ymbid fineo 7 that the sufferer was one of his following, they unanimously allowed that Waverley's conduct was that of a kind and considerate chieftain, who merited the attachment of his people. In about a quarter of an hour poor Humphry breathed his last, praying his young master, when he returned to Waverley-Honour, to be kind to old Job Houghton and his dame, and conjuring him not to fight with these wild petticoat-men against old England.or When his last breath was drawn, Waverley, who had beheld with sincere sorrow, and no slight tinge of remorse, the final agonies of mortality, now witnessed for the first time, commanded Callum to remove the body into the hut. This the young Highlander performed, not without examining the pockets of the defunct, which, however, he remarked, had been pretty well spung'd. He took the cloak, AJ: Se however, and, proceeding with the provident caution of a spaniel hiding a bone, concealed it among some furze, and carefully marked the spot, observing, that if he chanced to return that way, it would be an excellent rokelay for his auld mother, Elspat. It was by a considerable exertion that they regained their place in the marching column, which was now moving rapidly forward to occupy the high grounds above the village of Tranent, between which and the sea lay the purposed march of the opposite army. This melancholy interview with his late serjeant forced many unavailing and painful reflections upon Waverley's mind. It baid bas was clear, from the confession of the man, that Colonel G's proceedings had been strictly warranted, and even rendered indispensable, by the steps taken in Edward's name to induce the soldiers of his troop to mutiny. The circumstance of the seal, he now, for the first time, recollected, Jig and that he had lost it in the cavern of the robber, Bean Lean. That the artful villain had secured it, and used it as the means of carrying on an intrigue in the regiment for his own purposes, was sufficiently evident; and Edward had now little doubt that in the packet placed in his portmanteau by his daughter, he should find farther light upon his proceedings, In the meanwhile, the repeated expostu lation of Houghton,-" Ah, squire, why did you leave us?" rung like a knell in his ears. "Yes," said he, "I have indeed acted towards you with thoughtless cruelty. I brought you from your paternal fields, and the protection of a generous and kind landlord, and when I had subjected you to all the rigour of military discipline, I shunned to bear my own share of the burthen, and wandered from the duties I had undertaken, leaving alike those whom it was my business to protect, and my own reputation, to suffer under the artifices of vil *་་ |