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The er and drunkenness was speedily followed by stupor, and the night during which Haldane was locked up in the station-house was a blank The nexthe was decidedly ill as the result of his debauch; for the after-effects of the vile liquor he had drank was such as to make any creature save rational

But the officers of the law had not the slightest consideration for his aching head and jarring nerves He was hustled off to the police court with others, and he now seemed in harmony with the place and company

Pat M'Cabe was a veteran in these matters, and had his witnesses ready, ore to the truth, and anything else calculated to assist Pat, their crony, out of his scrape Unfortunately for Haldane, the truth was against hi no defence The natural result, therefore, of the brief hearing, was his committal to the common jail for ten days, and the liberation of Pat, with a severe reprimand

Thus, after the lapse of a few brief weeks, Haldane found hi and expecting to acco his proud words to his mother and Mrs Arnot as he looked around the bare walls, and he was sufficiently hiraceful had been his defeat But such was his mood that it could find no better expression than a eneral Then, throwing hined himself to his stupor, from which he had been aroused to receive his sentence

It was late in the afternoon when he awoke, and his cell was already growing dusky with the coenial to shadows, and they cah

But as Haldane slowly regained full consciousness, and recalled all that had transpired, he felt hiht could cast The world condemned hi of pity Scarcely ly spoiled his life utterly It was torment to remeed physical nature so bitterly resented its wrongs by racking pains that it now seeratification was i as to be revolting Though scarcely more than across the threshold of life, existence had becoht up in an at it away as he would a handful of nettles; but his childish memory had been made familiar with that ancient Book whose truths, like anchors, enable e of wreck to outride the stors to entertain for a moment the shallow theory that a man can escape the consequences of folly, villany, and unutterable baseness byto breathe