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Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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Hatteraick and Brown, aware that he was the occasion of their
disasters, resolved to murder him. He stated that he had seen them
lay violent hands on the officer and drag him through the woods,
but had not partaken in the assault nor witnessed its termination;
that he returned to the cavern by a different route, where he
again met Hatteraick and his accomplices; and the captain was in
the act of giving an account how he and Brown had pushed a huge
crag over, as Kennedy lay groaning on the beach, when Glossin
suddenly appeared among them. To the whole transaction by which
Hatteraick purchased his secrecy he was witness. Respecting young
Bertram, he could give a distinct account till he went to India,
after which he had lost sight of him until he unexpectedly met
with him in Liddesdale. Gabriel Faa farther stated that he
instantly sent notice to his aunt Meg Merrilies, as well as to
Hatteraick, who he knew was then upon the coast; but that he had
incurred his aunt's displeasure upon the latter account. He
concluded, that his aunt had immediately declared that she would
do all that lay in her power to help young Ellangowan to his
right, even if it should be by informing against Dirk Hatteraick;
and that many of her people assisted her besides himself, from a
belief that she was gifted with supernatural inspirations. With
the same purpose, he understood his aunt had given to Bertram the
treasure of the tribe, of which she had the custody. Three or four
gipsies, by the express command of Meg Merrilies, mingled in the
crowd when the custom-house was attacked, for the purpose of
liberating Bertram, which he had himself effected. He said, that
in obeying Meg's dictates they did not pretend to estimate their
propriety or rationality, the respect in which she was held by her
tribe precluding all such subjects of speculation. Upon farther
interrogation, the witness added, that his aunt had always said
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