produced the sword which his nephew had worn that night, on
which there was neither blood nor blemish; and, above all, he
insisted on the evidence of a number of surgeons, who declared
that both the wounds which the deceased had received had been
given behind. One of these was below the left arm, and a slight
one; the other was quite through the body, and both evidently
inflicted with the same weapon, a two-edged sword, of the same
dimensions as that worn by Drummond.

Upon the whole, there was a division in the court, but a
majority decided it. Drummond was pronounced guilty of the
murder; outlawed for not appearing, and a high reward offered
for his apprehension. It was with the greatest difficulty that he
escaped on board of a small trading vessel, which landed him in
Holland, and from thence, flying into Germany, he entered into
the service of the Emperor Charles VI. Many regretted that he
was not taken, and made to suffer the penalty due for such a
crime, and the melancholy incident became a pulpit theme over
a great part of Scotland, being held up as a proper warning to
youth to beware of such haunts of vice and depravity, the nurses
of all that is precipitate, immoral, and base, among mankind.

After the funeral of this promising and excellent young man, his
father never more held up his head. Miss Logan, with all her art,
could not get him to attend to any worldly thing, or to make any
settlement whatsoever of his affairs, save making her over a
present of what disposable funds he had about him. As to his
estates, when they were mentioned to him, he wished them all in
the bottom of the sea, and himself along with them. But,
whenever she mentioned the circumstance of Thomas Drummond