She remembered little more except the firing of
shots, until she found herself alone with her guest, and saw that the
ruffians had escaped. Lord Glenvarloch told his story as we have given
it to the reader. The direct evidence thus received, Hildebrod
examined the premises. He found that the villains had made their
entrance by the window out of which the survivor had made his escape;
yet it seemed singular that they should have done so, as it was
secured with strong iron bars, which old Trapbois was in the habit of
shutting with his own hand at nightfall. He minuted down with great
accuracy, the state of every thing in the apartment, and examined
carefully the features of the slain robber. He was dressed like a
seaman of the lowest order, but his face was known to none present.
Hildebrod next sent for an Alsatian surgeon, whose vices, undoing what
his skill might have done for him, had consigned him to the wretched
practice of this place. He made him examine the dead bodies, and make
a proper declaration of the manner in which the sufferers seemed to
have come by their end. The circumstances of the sash did not escape
the learned judge, and having listened to all that could be heard or
conjectured on the subject, and collected all particulars of evidence
which appeared to bear on the bloody transaction, he commanded the
door of the apartment to be locked until next morning; and carrying,
the unfortunate daughter of the murdered man into the kitchen, where
there was no one in presence but Lord Glenvarloch, he asked her
gravely, whether she suspected no one in particular of having
committed the deed.
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