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The soberer portion took it for an act of mere curiosity, unlikely to be repeated. Malcolm saw that the only way of setting things right was that the marquis should go again openly, but it was with much difficulty that he persuaded him to present himself in the assembly. Again accompanied by his daughter and Malcolm, he did, however, once more cross the links to the Baillies' Barn.
In his attendance on his father he had not seen the piper he could not remember for how many days; and on inquiry he found that, although he had not been missed, no one could recall having seen him later than three or four days agone. The last he could hear of him was that about a week before a boy had spied him sitting on a rock in the Baillies' Barn with his pipes in his lap.
He was already yards away, running at full speed. The marquis shouted after him, but Malcolm would not hear. When he reached the Baillies' Barn once more, all was still. He groped his way in and found his own lantern where they had been sitting, and having lighted it, descended and followed the windings of the cavern a long way, but saw nothing of the laird or Phemy.
One evening, Malcolm thought he would pay Joseph a visit, but when he reached Scaurnose, he found it nearly deserted: he had forgotten that this was one of the nights of meeting in the Baillies' Barn. Phemy indeed had not gone with her father and mother, but she was spending the evening with the laird.
It was in vain that the advocates of this invaluable discovery exclaimed over their perverse and interested obstinacy, in vain that they called up the injured ghosts of Harvey, Galileo, and Copernicus to shame that unbelieving generation; the Baillies and the Heberdens, men whose names have come down to us as synonymous with honor and wisdom, bore their reproaches in meek silence, and left them unanswered to their fate.
"Weel, maybe!" rejoined Mair. "What power have you to set things right?" "Nane, sir. The Baillies' Barn 's as free to them as to oorsel's." "What influence have you, then?" "Unco little," said Bow o' meal, taking the word. "They're afore the win'. An' it 's plain eneuch 'at to stan' up an' oppose them wad be but to breed strife an' debate."
When the rude mob, with their shouts and cries, had turned their backs, the imprisoned authorities were able to break out and take shelter in the empty Tolbooth; but when the crowd surged up again, finding the gates closed at the Nether Bow, into the High Street, a scuffle arose, a new "Clear the Causeway," though the defenders of order kept within the walls of the Tolbooth, and thence shot at the rioters, who returned their fire with hagbuts and stones from three in the afternoon till eight o'clock in the evening, "and never ane man of the town stirred to defend their provost and baillies."
They would walk there, he said. So it was arranged that Malcolm should take him and Lady Florimel to the Baillies' Barn the very next time the fishermen had a meeting. Lady Florimel was delighted at the prospect of such an adventure. The evening arrived.
They were men of good character, and were carefully selected for their military qualities.... Besides this military band, others among the Mackays, the Dunbars, the Baillies, and the Cuthberts applied for large tracts of land in Georgia which they occupied with their own servants. Many of them went over in person and settled in the province."
For he had before made intercession for William Harlow, James Fussell, and others that were convict of the former tumult. They proudly said 'that if it was not stayed both he and the Baillies should repent it. Whereto he answered 'He would not hurt his conscience for any fear of man."
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