The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

OLD I MORTALITY,. 555
house. Some rose to resist, and some -to escape; the doors and windows
were forced at once, and the red coats of the troopers appeared in the
apartment.
".H1ave at the bloody rebels! —Remember Cornet Grhame.!" was shouted
on every side.
The lights were struck down, but the dubious glare of the fire enabled
them to continue the fray. Several pistol-shots were fired; the whig who
etood next to Morton received a shot as he was rising, stumbled against the
prisokner., whom he bore down with his weight, and lay stretched above him
a dying m an. This accident probably saved Morton from the damage he
might otherwise have received in so close a struggle, where fire-arms were
discharged and sword-blows given for upwards of five minutes.
*G' Is the prisoenr safe?" exclaimed the well-known voice of Claverhouse;
"'look about for him, and dispatch the whig dog who is groaning there."
Both orders were executed. The groans of the wounded man were
silenced by a thrust with a rapier, and Morton, disencumbered of his weight,
was speedily raised and in the armns of the faithful Cuddie, who blubbered
or joy when he found that the blood with which his master was covered
had not flowed from his own veins. A whisper in Morton's ear, -while his
trusty follower relieved him from his bonds, explained the secret of the very
timely appearan.ce of the soldiers.
I' fell into Claverhouase's party when I was seeking for some o' our ain
folk to help ye out o' the hands of the whigs, sae being atween the deil and
the deep sea, I e'en thought i$t best to bring him on wi' me, for he'll be
wearied wi' felling folk the night, and the morn's a new day, and Lord
Evandale awes ye a day in ha'arst; and Monmouth gies quarter, the dragoons tell me, for the asking. Sae hand up your heart, an' I'se warrant
we'll do a' wede enenugh yet."
NOTE TO CHAPTER XXXII.
"The pr-in.ipal inctidtlent of the foregoing Chapter was suggested by an occurrence of a similar dind, told me
by a gentleman, now deceased, who held an important situation in the Excise, to which he had been raised
bay active land resolute exertions in an inferior department. When employed as a supervisor on the coast of
Galloway. at a time when the immunities of the Isle of Man rendered smuggling almost universal in that
district., this gentleman had the fortune to offend highly several of the leaders in the contraband trade, by hlis
zeal in serving the revenue.
This rendered his situation a dangerous one, and, on more than one occasion, placed his life in jeopardy.
At one time in particular, as he was riding after sunset on a slmrmler evening, he came suddenly upon a gang
iof t! he most despertte smugglers in that part of the co~untry. They surrounded hirm, without violence, but in
masurn a manner as to show tht:itvit roild dbe resorted to if he offered resistance, and gave him to understand he
nrll:st spend thle evening with thern, silce they had met so happily. The officer did rnot attempt opposition,
hi.t only asked leave to send a country lad to tell his wife and fa!nily thaat he shoauld e detained later than he
expected. As lie had to charge thle boy with tiMs meesage ii tvhe pr~esence of the smnugcers, he could found
no hope of deliverarce from it, save what might arise fiomn the sharpness of the lad's olservation, and the
natural anxiety and affection of his wife. But if his erranld shoulud he deliveredl and received literally, as he'vas consecious themarnugglers expected. it was lilkely that it ilight, by suspending alarm about his absence from
lhome, postpone all.searc!l after hias till it might be, useless. Making a merit of necessity, therefore, he instructed and despatched his messenger, ard went with the contraband traders, with seeming willingness, to
~one of their ordinary haunts. He sat down at table with them, and they lbeganl to drink and indulge themselves in gross jokes, while, like Mirabel in the' Inconstant," their prisoner ]lad the hleaavy task of receiving
their insolence as wit, answering their insults with goad lunmrnu, aand witlhhllding frorn tlaena the opportunity
wvhich they sought of engaging him in a quarrel, that they m gilt lave a pretence for nmisusing him. He succeeded for somne time, but soon becarmte satisfied it wwas their purpose to nlurder himn outright, or.else to beat
him in such a manner asscarce to learve inim with life. A regard for tile sanctity of the BSahbath evening,
which still oddly subsisted arang, thtese ferocious men, amidst their h;abitual violation of divine and social
izaw, prevented their commencing their intended cruelty until the Sabbath sllould be terminated. T'hey were
sitting, around their anxious prisoner, muttering to each other words of terrihle import, and watching the
index of a clock, which was shortly to strike the hoer at which, in their apprehension. murder would beromne
lawful, when their intended victim heard a distant rustling like the wind alonleg withered leaves. It came
nearer, and resembled the sound of a btrook in flood chafing within its hanllks, it camne nearer yet, and was
plainly distinguished as the galloping of a party of horse. The absence of her husl)and, and the accousnt
given by the boy of the suspicious auppearance af those with whom lie haId remalined, had induced Mrs. --
to apply to the nleighboring towtl for a plarty of dragoons, who thus proridentially arrived in i mei to isa-ve him
from ertreme violeace, inot fiom.sctuaMldestructie.a.