sheriff of Roxburghshire too, and to an active justice of peace in
Cumberland.'

'I hope when you come to the country you will make Woodbourne your
headquarters?'

'Certainly; I was afraid you were going to forbid me. But we must
go to breakfast now or I shall be too late.'

On the following day the new friends parted, and the Colonel
rejoined his family without any adventure worthy of being detailed
in these chapters.




CHAPTER XL

Can no rest find me, no private place secure me,
But still my miseries like bloodhounds haunt me?
Unfortunate young man, which way now guides thee,
Guides thee from death? The country's laid around for thee.

Women Pleased.


Our narrative now recalls us for a moment to the period when young
Hazlewood received his wound. That accident had no sooner happened
than the consequences to Miss Mannering and to himself rushed upon
Brown's mind. From the manner in which the muzzle of the piece was