No, not for the soul of him. He was pursued for his life,
at the moment when he first flew into my arms. But I did not
know it; no, I did not then know him. May the curse of heaven,
and the blight of hell, settle on the detestable wretch! He pursue
for the sake of justice! No; his efforts have all been for evil, but
never for good. But I raised the alarm; miserable and degraded as
I was, I pursued and raised the watch myself Have you not heard
the name of Bell Calvert coupled with that hideous and
mysterious affair?"
"Yes, I have. In secret often I have heard it. But how came it that
you could never be found? How came it that you never appeared
in defence of the Honourable Thomas Drummond; you, the only
person who could have justified him?"
"I could not, for I then fell under the power and guidance of a
wretch who durst not for the soul of him be brought forward in
the affair. And, what was worse, his evidence would have
overborne mine, for he would have sworn that the man who
called out and fought Colwan was the same he met leaving my
apartment, and there was an end of it. And, moreover, it is well
known that this same man--this wretch of whom I speak, never
mistook one man for another in his life, which makes the mystery
of the likeness between this incendiary and Drummond the more
extraordinary.
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