approaching death. 'There were three of them set upon him: I
brought the twasome, but wha was the third? It would be HIMSELL,
returned to work his ain vengeance!'

It was evident that the unexpected appearance of Hazlewood, whose
person the outrage of Hatteraick left her no time to recognise,
had produced a strong effect on her imagination. She often
recurred to it. Hazlewood accounted for his unexpected arrival to
Bertram by saying that he had kept them in view for some time by
the direction of Mannering; that, observing them disappear into
the cave, he had crept after them, meaning to announce himself and
his errand, when his hand in the darkness encountering the leg of
Dinmont had nearly produced a catastrophe, which, indeed, nothing
but the presence of mind and fortitude of the bold yeoman could
have averted.

When the gipsy arrived at the hut she produced the key; and when
they entered, and were about to deposit her upon the bed, she
said, in an anxious tone, 'Na, na! not that way--the feet to the
east'; and appeared gratified when they reversed her posture
accordingly, and placed her in that appropriate to a dead body.

'Is there no clergyman near,' said Bertram, 'to assist this
unhappy woman's devotions?'

A gentleman, the minister of the parish, who had been Charles
Hazlewood's tutor, had, with many others, caught the alarm that
the murderer of Kennedy was taken on the spot where the deed had
been done so many years before, and that a woman was mortally
wounded. From curiosity, or rather from the feeling that his duty