called him to scenes of distress, this gentleman had come to the
Kaim of Derncleugh, and now presented himself. The surgeon arrived
at the same time, and was about to probe the wound; but Meg
resisted the assistance of either. 'It's no what man can do that
will heal my body or save my spirit. Let me speak what I have to
say, and then ye may work your will; I'se be nae hindrance. But
where's Henry Bertram?' The assistants, to whom this name had been
long a stranger, gazed upon each other. 'Yes!' she said, in a
stronger and harsher tone, 'I said HENRY BERTRAM OF ELLANGOWAN.
Stand from the light and let me see him.'

All eyes were turned towards Bertram, who approached the wretched
couch. The wounded woman took hold of his hand. 'Look at him,' she
said, 'all that ever saw his father or his grandfather, and bear
witness if he is not their living image?' A murmur went through
the crowd; the resemblance was too striking to be denied. 'And now
hear me; and let that man,' pointing to Hatteraick, who was seated
with his keepers on a sea-chest at some distance--'let him deny
what I say if he can. That is Henry Bertram, son to Godfrey
Bertram, umquhile of Ellangowan; that young man is the very lad-
bairn that Dirk Hatteraick carried off from Warroch wood the day
that he murdered the gauger. I was there like a wandering spirit,
for I longed to see that wood or we left the country. I saved the
bairn's life, and sair, sair I prigged and prayed they would leave
him wi' me. But they bore him away, and he's been lang ower the
sea, and now he's come for his ain, and what should withstand him?
I swore to keep the secret till he was ane-an'-twenty; I kenn'd he
behoved to dree his weird till that day cam. I keepit that oath
which I took to them; but I made another vow to mysell, that if I
lived to see the day of his return I would set him in his father's