returned again to the house, and; announeing themselves as men in the same predicament with the inmates, clamoured loudly for admittance.
"Whoever ye be," answered a stern voice from the window; after a long, and obdurate silence, "disturb not those who mourn for the desolation and captivity of the land, and search out the causes of wrath and of defection, that the stumbling-blocks may be removed over which we have stumbled."
"They are wild western whigs," said Guddie, in a whisper to his master, "I ken by their language. Fiend hae me if I like to venture on them."
Morton, however, again called to the party within, and insisted on admittance; but, finding his entreaties still disregarded, he opened one of the lower windows, and pushing asunder the shutters, which were but slightly secured, stepped into the large kitchen from which the voice had issued. Cuddie followed him, muttering betwixt
