"That question, sir, I shall also leave unanswered."
"There is yet another circumstance to be enquired into. This prisoner put into the hands of Mrs. Mac-Candlish of Kippletringan, a parcel containing a variety of gold coins and valuable articles of different kinds. Perhaps, Sir Robert, you might think it right to ask, how he came by property of a description which seldom occurs?"
"You, sir, Mr. Vanbeest Brown, sir, you hear the question, sir, which the gentleman asks you?"
"I have particular reasons for declining to answer that question."
"Then I am afraid, sir, our duty must lay us under the necessity to sign a warrant of committal."
"As you please, sir; take care, however, what you do. Observe that I inform you that I am a captain in his majesty's regiment, and that I am just re-
