returned any reply. Pleydell wiped the glasses of his spectacles
and considered the prisoner very attentively. 'A very truculent-
looking fellow,' he whispered to Mannering; 'but, as Dogberry
says, I'll go cunningly to work with him. Here, call in Soles--
Soles the shoemaker. Soles, do you remember measuring some
footsteps imprinted on the mud at the wood of Warroch on--November
17--, by my orders?' Soles remembered the circumstance perfectly.
'Look at that paper; is that your note of the measurement?' Soles
verified the memorandum. 'Now, there stands a pair of shoes on
that table; measure them, and see if they correspond with any of
the marks you have noted there.' The shoemaker obeyed, and
declared 'that they answered exactly to the largest of the
footprints.'

'We shall prove,' said the Counsellor, aside to Mannering, 'that
these shoes, which were found in the ruins at Derncleugh, belonged
to Brown, the fellow whom you shot on the lawn at Woodbourne. Now,
Soles, measure that prisoner's feet very accurately.'

Mannering observed Hatteraick strictly, and could notice a visible
tremor. 'Do these measurements correspond with any of the
footprints?'

The man looked at the note, then at his foot-rule and measure,
then verified his former measurement by a second. 'They
correspond,' he said, 'within a hair-breadth to a foot-mark
broader and shorter than the former.'

Hatteraick's genius here deserted him. 'Der deyvil!' he broke out,
'how could there be a footmark on the ground, when it was a frost