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"
No
doubt
a
false
report
,
Mr
.
Archibald
,
"
said
the
Moderator
.
"
It
’
s
like
that
the
worthy
sodgers
had
been
looking
at
the
wine
when
it
was
red
and
werena
that
clear
in
their
understanding
.
"
"
I
cannot
charge
my
memory
with
what
I
said
,
"
David
replied
,
"
but
it
may
well
have
been
as
set
forth
.
That
,
at
any
rate
,
was
what
I
had
it
in
my
mind
to
say
.
"
A
sigh
of
reprobation
rose
from
the
Court
,
and
the
Moderator
shook
his
head
.
He
honestly
desired
to
give
David
a
way
of
escape
,
not
from
any
love
he
bore
him
,
but
for
the
credit
of
the
Kirk
.
This
,
too
,
was
the
general
feeling
.
As
David
looked
over
the
ranks
of
his
judges
he
saw
stupidity
,
arrogance
,
confusion
,
writ
on
many
faces
,
but
on
none
malevolence
.
This
Court
would
deal
mildly
with
him
,
if
he
gave
them
the
chance
,
for
the
sake
of
the
repute
of
their
common
calling
.
He
laboured
to
be
meek
,
but
no
answers
,
however
soft
,
could
disguise
the
fact
that
he
and
they
looked
upon
things
from
standpoints
eternally
conflicting
.
It
was
suggested
to
him
again
and
again
that
the
stranger
at
the
manse
had
been
entertained
by
his
housekeeper
,
an
ignorant
woman
and
therefore
the
less
reprehensible
,
for
had
she
not
rolled
up
the
clothes
and
hidden
them
in
the
byre
,
as
the
accused
admitted
?
But
David
refused
to
shelter
behind
any
misapprehension
.
He
had
admitted
the
man
,
what
was
done
had
been
by
his
orders
,
and
-
-
this
in
reply
to
a
question
by
the
minister
of
Bold
-
-
what
he
had
done
he
was
prepared
to
do
again
.
The
close
of
the
first
day
’
s
sederunt
found
the
charges
proven
in
substance
by
the
admission
,
indeed
by
the
vehement
proclamation
,
of
the
accused
.
For
David
there
was
no
share
in
the
clerical
supper
at
the
Cross
Keys
.
He
lay
at
a
smaller
inn
in
the
Northgate
,
a
resort
of
drovers
and
packmen
,
and
spent
such
time
as
remained
before
bed
in
walking
by
Aller
side
,
under
the
little
hill
crowned
with
kirk
and
castle
,
watching
the
salmon
leap
as
they
passed
the
cauld
.
Next
day
,
the
facts
having
been
ascertained
by
admission
,
the
Presbytery
debated
on
principles
,
David
was
summoned
to
justify
his
conduct
,
and
-
-
with
a
prayer
that
he
might
be
given
humility
-
-
complied
.
With
every
sentence
he
rode
deeper
into
the
disapprobation
of
his
hearers
.
He
claimed
that
the
cause
of
the
helpless
,
however
guilty
,
was
the
cause
of
Christ
.
Should
a
starving
enemy
be
turned
from
the
door
,
even
though
it
was
an
enemy
of
the
Kirk
’
s
?
"
Man
,
can
ye
no
distinguish
?
"
thundered
the
minister
of
Bold
.
"
Have
you
no
logic
in
your
head
?
"
And
he
quoted
a
dozen
savage
Scriptural
precedents
against
him
.
Was
the
Court
,
David
asked
,
in
a
time
of
civil
strife
and
war
between
brothers
,
clear
that
the
precedent
of
Israel
and
the
tribes
of
Canaan
held
?
The
men
they
fought
against
were
professing
Christians
,
indeed
professed
Presbyterians
.
Granted
that
they
were
in
error
,
was
it
an
error
which
could
only
be
extirpated
in
blood
?
It
was
an
unlucky
plea
,
for
it
brought
forth
a
frenzied
torrent
of
denials
.
The
appeal
of
his
opponents
was
not
only
to
Scripture
,
but
to
the
decisions
of
the
Kirk
.
Was
there
not
here
,
one
cried
,
that
rebellion
which
was
as
the
sin
of
witchcraft
?
What
became
,
cried
another
,
of
the
deference
which
a
young
man
was
bound
to
show
to
the
authority
of
his
fathers
in
God
?
"
Are
we
to
be
like
Rehoboam
,
who
hearkened
to
callow
and
inexperienced
youth
,
and
not
to
those
elders
who
partook
of
the
wisdom
of
his
father
Solomon
?
"
Presently
David
was
silent
.
He
remembered
that
meekness
became
him
,
and
he
had
a
sharp
sense
of
the
futility
of
argument
.
Respectfully
he
bowed
his
head
to
the
blast
,
while
a
dozen
of
his
brethren
delivered
extracts
from
their
recent
sermons
.
The
Moderator
confirmed
the
sense
of
the
Court
.
