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to the dead, — nor even, I am afraid, to their kindred 

 who are alive. Possibly also the position of a Koyal 

 Commissioner might be privileged. But, if so, the 

 privilege carries an obligation which is all the more 

 binding. I wonder whether it ever occurred to 

 Mr. Fraser Mackintosh to ask himself whether Mr. 

 Campbell has no relatives who may be wounded, 

 but who may have no redress. Mr. Fraser Mackin- 

 tosh seemed eager to take under his protection the 

 widows on my estate whom it had been falsely re- 

 ported that I have been in the habit of dispossess- 

 ing. Did it ever occur to him to ask whether Mr. 

 Campbell had left a widow, to whom bis imputa- 

 tions of fraud against her husband Avould have been 

 a bitter trial ? Such a widow there was, — one of the 

 best women I have ever known, — a woman of the 

 highest Christian character — under whose roof I have 

 spent many happy hours when examining improve- 

 ments on the estate, and through whom the late 

 Duchess was long accustomed to dispense her charities 

 for the poor of the Ross — feeling and knowing that 

 they would be distributed with sympathy and with 

 personal knowledge. Within the last few weeks I 

 have heard her name — and her husband's name too — 

 mentioned with grateful remembrance among the 

 really poor on the Ross of Mull. She is now dead ; 

 but she died only a few short months ago ; and much 

 as I felt the death of an old friend so closely asso- 

 ciated with former days, I am now thankful that she 

 was removed in time to escape the great pain which 

 would undoubtedly have been inflicted upon her by 

 the shameful insinuations against her husband which 

 were conveyed in the words of Mr. Fraser Mackintosh. 



