But it seemed as if
some overruling power ordered it that they should miss no chance
of attaining the information they wanted. For ere ever they came
within half a mile of Dalcastle they perceived the two youths
coming as to meet them, on the same path. The road leading
from Dalcastle towards the north-east, as all the country knows,
goes along a dark bank of brush-wood called the Bogle-heuch. It
was by this track that the two women were going, and, when they
perceived the two gentlemen meeting them, they turned back,
and, the moment they were out of their sight, they concealed
themselves in a thicket close by the road. They did this because
Mrs. Logan was terrified for being discovered, and because they
wished to reconnoitre without being seen. Mrs. Calvert now
charged her, whatever she saw, or whatever she heard, to put on a
resolution, and support it, for if she fainted there and was
discovered, what was to become of her!
The two young men came on, in earnest and vehement
conversation; but the subject they were on was a terrible one, and
hardly fit to be repeated in the face of a Christian community.
Wringhim was disputing the boundlessness of the true Christian's
freedom, and expressing doubts that, chosen as he knew he was
from all eternity, still it might be possible for him to commit acts
that would exclude him from the limits of the covenant.
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