Excerpt from The White Cockade, Vol. 2 of 3: Or Faith and Fortitude

"When paltry rogues by stealth, deceit or force,

Hazard their necks, ambitious of your purse;

For these the hangman wreathes his trusty gin,

And lets the gallows expiate their sin:

But lo a ruffian whose portentous crimes

Like plagues and earthquakes terrify the times

Triumphs through life, from legal judgment free,

For hell may hatch what law could ne'er foresee!" Verses, 1759.

A Short time before Bryde returned, with the captured papers, Dalquharn, as already stated, had taken his sword and pistols (the same from which he had effaced his crest and coronet, the better to conceal his name and rank) and gone forth with Mr. John Gage.

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