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Updated: June 10, 2025
In Edinburgh he remained ‘a certain short space,’ say four days, which would bring us to July 20. Needless to say that this does not fit Letter II, Logan to Bower, July 18, and Letter I, Logan to the Unknown, Fastcastle, July 18. Bower said nothing could be done till Logan rode west himself.
Logan, or rather Fastcastle, does not unto this day, know the secret of the Emu's feathers, though, later, he sorely tried the secretiveness of Merton, as shall be shown in the following narrative. I. At Castle Skrae 'How vain a thing is wealth, said Merton.
'With or without Lord Fastcastle, you must do it! said Lady Bude. They saw Mr. Macrae approaching them deep in thought and advanced to meet him. 'Mr. Macrae, asked Lady Bude suddenly, 'have you had Donald with you long? 'Ever since he was a lad in Canada, answered the millionaire.
'Lord Fastcastle is a little moved, said Merton. 'He comes of a wild stock, but I never saw him like this. Mr. Macrae allowed that the circumstances were unusual. A horrible thought occurred to Merton. 'Mr. Macrae, he exclaimed, 'may I speak to you privately? Bude, I dare say, will be kind enough to remain with that person. Mr. Macrae followed Merton into the billiard-room.
Mark Napier in his essay on this matter twice or thrice prints ‘Logan’ for ‘Sprot,’ or ‘Sprot’ for ‘Logan.’ ‘Fastcastle,’ in Sprot’s confession, may be a slip of tongue or pen for ‘Gunnisgreen,’ or he may have been confused among the movements to and from Gunnisgreen and Fastcastle. The present writer finds similar errors in the manuscript of this work.
Sprot ‘knew perfectly,’ he said, on July 5, that one letter from Gowrie and one from his brother, Alexander Ruthven, reached Logan, at Fastcastle and at Gunnisgreen, a house hard by Eyemouth, where Sprot was a notary, and held cottage land. This statement was untrue.
Macrae took the letter, bidding Benson, the butler, search the room, and conveyed the epistle to Merton, who opened it. It ran thus: 'DEAR MERTON, As a man of the world, and slightly my senior, you must have expected to meet me in the smoking-room to-night, or at least Lord Fastcastle probably entertained that hope. I saw that things were getting a little too warm, and made other arrangements.
It is very important, we must freely admit, as an argument against the theory of carrying James to Logan’s impregnable keep of Fastcastle, that only one question, in our papers, is asked as to the provisioning of Fastcastle, and that merely as to the supply of drink! That was commonly regarded as a harmless constitutional practice, not justifying the slaughter of the Ruthvens.
He was the last of his family, in the direct line, and on his death almost all his vast wealth would go to nobody knew where. To be sure Logan himself would succeed to the title of Fastcastle, which descends to heirs general, but nothing worth having went with the title.
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