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.

240 WAVERLlEY NOVELS.
spoken, so far as it relates exclusively to your lordship; what remains, is
matter of business of a more formal kind."
"Let us proceed to it without delay," said Lord Glenvarloch. "I would
hear of the affairs of any one rather than of my own."
"You cannot have forgotten, my lord," said Hleriot, "the transaction
which took place some weeks since at Lord Huntinglen's-by which a large
sum of money was advanced for the redemption of your lordship's estate?"
"I remember it perfectly," said Nigel; " and your present austerity cannot make me forget your kindness on the occasion."
Heriot bowed gravely, and went on. —" That money was advanced under
the expectation and hope, that it might be replaced by the contents of a
grant to your lordship, under the royal sign-manual, in payment of certain
moneys due by the crown to your father,-I trust your lordship understood
the transaction at the time-I trust you now understand my resumption of
its import, and hold it to be correct?"
"Undeniably correct," answered Lord Glenvarloch. "If the sums contained in the warrant cannot be recovered, my lands become the property
of those who paid off the original holders of the mortgage, and now stand
in their right."
"Even so, my lord," said Hleriot. "And your lordship's unhappy circumstances having, it would seem, alarmed these creditors, they are now, I
am sorry to say, pressing for one or other of these alternatives-possession
of the land, or payment of their debt."
"They have a right to one or other," answered Lord Glenvarloch; "and
as I cannot do the last in my present condition, I suppose they must enter
on possession."
" Stay, my lord," replied Heriot; " if you have ceased to call me a friend
to your person, at least you shall see I am willing to be such to your father's
house, were it but for the sake of your father's memory. If you will trust
me with the warrant under the sign-manual, I believe circumstances do now
so stand at Court, that I may be able to recover the money for you."
" I would do so gladly," said Lord Glenvarloch, "but the casket which
contains it is not in my possession. It was seized when I was arrested at
Greenwich."
"It will be no longer withheld from you," said IHeriot; "for, I under.
stand, my Master's natural good sense, and some information which he has
procured, I know not how, has induced him to contradict the whole charge
of the attempt on his person. It is entirely hushed up; and you will only
be proceeded against for your violence on Lord Dalgarno, committed within
the verge of the Palace-and that you will find heavy enough to answer."
"I will not shrink under the weight," said Lord Glenvarloch. "But
that is not the present point. If I had that casket -"
" Your baggage stood in the little ante-room, as I passed," said the citizen; " the casket caught my eye. I think you had it of me. It was my
old friend Sir Faithful Frugal's. Ay; he, too, had a son
IHere he stopped short.
"A son who, like Lord Glenvarloch's, did no credit to his father. Was
it not so you would have ended the sentence, Master Heriot?" said the
young nobleman.
" iAly lord, it was a word spoken rashly," answered Heriot. "God may
mend all in his own good time. This, however, I will say, that I have
sometimes envied my friends their fair and flourishing families; and yet
have I seen such changes when death has removed the head, so many rich
men's sons penniless, the heirs of so many knights and nobles acreless,
that I think mine own estate and memory, as I shall order it, has a fair
chance of outliving those of greater men, though God has given me no heir
of my name. But this is from the purpose.-Ho! warder, bring in Lord
G-lenvarloch's baggage." The officer obeyed. Seals had been placed upon