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"
Ay
,
but
you
must
first
show
a
prima
facie
case
,
and
that
you
have
failed
to
do
.
You
have
brought
grievous
charges
against
one
noted
servant
of
God
,
and
sundry
women
,
of
whom
it
can
at
least
be
said
that
they
bear
a
good
repute
.
Your
evidence
-
-
well
,
what
is
your
evidence
?
You
say
that
you
yourself
have
seen
this
and
heard
that
,
but
you
are
a
tainted
witness
-
-
a
matter
to
which
I
shall
presently
revert
.
You
have
the
man
Andrew
Shillinglaw
in
Reiverslaw
,
who
,
in
the
bit
of
precognition
with
which
you
have
furnished
me
,
tells
a
daft
tale
of
dressing
himself
up
like
a
mountebank
,
visiting
the
wood
of
Melanudrigill
,
and
sharing
in
certain
unlawful
doings
.
I
ask
you
,
sir
,
what
credence
can
be
given
to
such
evidence
?
Imprimis
,
he
was
himself
engaged
in
wrongdoing
,
and
so
is
justly
suspect
.
Item
,
he
is
a
notorious
wine
-
bibber
,
and
when
the
maut
is
in
,
the
wits
are
out
.
Whatna
condition
was
he
in
to
observe
justly
in
the
mirk
of
the
night
in
the
Black
Wood
,
where
by
his
own
account
he
was
capering
like
a
puddock
and
was
all
the
time
in
a
grue
of
terror
?
He
claims
on
that
occasion
to
have
laid
a
trap
for
the
accused
and
to
have
informed
two
men
of
undoubted
Christian
conversation
of
his
purpose
,
and
he
claims
that
on
the
next
day
the
same
witnesses
at
the
toun
of
Chasehope
were
cognizant
of
the
success
of
his
trap
.
As
I
live
by
bread
and
by
the
hope
of
salvation
,
this
is
the
daftest
tale
that
ever
came
to
my
ears
.
A
smell
of
burning
duds
,
and
a
missing
hen
!
The
veriest
cateran
that
ever
reived
in
the
Hielands
would
be
assoilzied
on
such
a
plea
.
There
is
not
evidence
here
to
hang
a
messan
dog
.
Away
with
you
,
man
,
and
let
’
s
hear
no
more
of
what
I
can
only
judge
to
have
been
a
drunken
cantrip
.
"
"
I
demand
that
Ephraim
Caird
be
interrogated
by
the
Presbytery
and
confronted
with
me
and
my
witnesses
.
"
"
You
must
first
prove
a
prima
facie
case
,
as
I
say
,
for
otherwise
honest
men
might
lose
time
and
siller
in
being
set
to
answer
malicious
libels
.
That
is
the
law
of
Scotland
,
sir
,
and
it
is
the
law
of
every
Christian
land
,
and
you
have
lamentably
failed
in
that
prior
duty
.
"
"
There
is
my
own
evidence
-
-
the
evidence
of
an
eyewitness
.
You
may
account
for
Reiverslaw
,
but
you
have
still
to
account
for
me
.
"
"
Just
so
.
"
A
grim
humour
seemed
to
lurk
at
the
corner
of
Mr
.
Muirhead
’
s
mouth
.
"
We
have
to
account
for
you
,
Mr
.
Sempill
,
and
it
seems
that
it
will
be
a
sore
business
.
For
I
have
here
"
-
-
he
tapped
a
paper
-
-
"
another
dittay
in
which
you
yourself
are
named
.
It
is
painful
for
me
even
to
give
ear
to
accusations
against
a
brother
on
whose
head
my
own
hands
have
been
laid
in
holy
ordination
.
But
I
have
my
solemn
duty
to
perform
,
and
must
consider
the
complaints
of
a
kirk
session
against
a
minister
as
carefully
and
prayerfully
as
those
of
a
minister
against
a
kirk
session
.
"
The
effect
on
David
was
of
a
sudden
clearing
of
the
air
and
a
bracing
of
nerve
.
This
was
,
then
,
to
be
no
one
-
sided
war
,
for
his
enemies
had
declared
themselves
,
and
met
attack
by
counter
-
attack
.
He
smiled
at
the
portentous
solemnity
of
Mr
.
Muirhead
’
s
face
.
"
I
can
guess
one
of
the
names
appended
to
the
charge
,
"
he
said
.
"
It
is
that
of
Chasehope
.
"
Mr
.
Muirhead
turned
over
the
paper
.
"
Ephraim
Caird
is
there
,
and
others
no
less
weighty
.
There
is
Peter
Pennecuik
.
.
.
and
Alexander
Sprot
in
Mirehope
.
.
.
and
Thomas
Spotswood
in
the
mill
of
Woodilee
.
If
godly
elders
are
constrained
to
delate
him
who
has
been
set
over
them
in
spiritual
affairs
,
it
’
s
scarcely
a
thing
to
be
met
with
a
smirk
and
a
grin
.
"
