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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 170: July-December, 1901 Robert Tullis, when I knew him many years later, was a silent, gaunt man, but that may have been because he had so much to remember. This night he discovered himself a new creature to his neighbours. He was standing across his own door when the crowd arrived. It's up wi' the souters o' the Bowes, he welcomed them, and jeered them to the garden end. With his frank and supple tongue, he was like a man gone a length in drink, extraordinary glib and impudent. He was fey, you would have said, only he lived long years afterwards. My uncle, James Seton, a very dull man, was for ever giving voice to the thoughts which he conceived to be pass ing through my Aunt Janet's mind. So now he says, The Devil has sent for his own at last whereas Aunt Janet, good woman, no doubt was thinking that the Devil has a terrible claim upon us all - a very different thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.