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The Sheriff then descended to other particulars, all of which
tended to prove that the fellow was an accomplished villain, and
that the principal share of the atrocities had been committed by
him. Indeed the Sheriff hinted that he suspected the only share
Mrs. Calvert had in them was in being too much in his company,
and too true to him. The case was remitted to the Court of
Justiciary; but Mrs. Logan had heard enough to convince her that
the culprits first met at the very spot, and the very hour, on which
George Colwan was slain; and she had no doubt that they were
incendiaries set on by his mother, to forward her own and her
darling son's way to opulence. Mrs. Logan was wrong, as will
appear in the sequel; but her antipathy to Mrs. Colwan made her
watch the event with all care. She never quitted Peebles as long
as Bell Calvert remained there, and, when she was removed to
Edinburgh, the other followed. When the trial came on, Mrs.
Logan and her maid were again summoned as witnesses before
the jury, and compelled by the prosecutor for the Crown to
appear.
The maid was first called; and, when she came into the witness
box, the anxious and hopeless looks of the prisoner were manifest
to all.
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