Returning very late one evening from a convocation of family
servants, which she had drawn together in order to fish something
out of them, her maid having been in attendance on her all the
evening, they found, on going home, that the house had been
broken and a number of valuable articles stolen therefrom. Mrs.
Logan had grown quite heartless before this stroke, having been
altogether unsuccessful in her inquiries, and now she began to
entertain some resolutions of giving up the fruitless search.
In a few days thereafter, she received intelligence that her clothes
and plate were mostly recovered, and that she for one was bound
over to prosecute the depredator, provided the articles turned out
to be hers, as libelled in the indictment, and as a king's evidence
had given out. She was likewise summoned, or requested, I know
not which, being ignorant of these matters, to go as far as the
town of Peebles in Tweedside, in order to survey these articles on
such a day, and make affidavit to their identity before the Sheriff
She went accordingly; but, on entering the town by the North
Gate, she was accosted by a poor girl in tattered apparel, who
with great earnestness inquired if her name was not Mrs.
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