letters of introduction, credentials, baggage, or any thing belonging to your pretended rank, estate, and condition, as I said before?"
"Sir, I had the misfortune to be robbed of my clothes and baggage."
"Oho! then you are the gentleman who took a post-chaise from to Kippletringan, gave the boy the slip on the road, and sent two of your accomplices to beat the boy and bring away the baggage?"
"I was, sir, in a carriage as you describe, and lost my way endeavouring to find the road to Kippletringan. The landlady of the inn will inform you, that on my arrival there the next day, my first enquiries were after the boy."
"Then give me leave to ask where you spent the night—not in the snow, I presume? you do not suppose that will pass, or be taken, credited, and received?"
"I beg leave," said Bertram, his recollection turning to the gypsey female, and to the promise he had given her, "I beg leave to decline answering that question."
