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night. We received the letter on Tuesday, and thought to 

 go on that night, and hence did not write him. But we 

 could not get away till Wednesday morning, arriving at 

 Glasgow at one that night. Spencer had telegraphed 

 Tuesday evening to i6 Little Britain, but it was shut up, 

 and if it had not been so they did not know where we were. 

 The purport of the telegram was, that Spencer would come 

 to London to see me if we were not coming to Scotland. 

 His father had written him that we would meet him at any 

 point in Scotland which he would indicate. I had emphat- 

 ically stated that I did not want him to turn a step out of 

 his way to meet us. I found him at eight in the morning at 

 his hotel. Ascending two flights of stairs, I was ushered into 

 the dining room. I inquired for Mr. Spencer; the waiter 

 said he was there at the other end of the room. I went 

 forward and made myself known to him. He received me 

 very quietly and cordially, and asked me first if I had re- 

 ceived his telegram ; said he had been waiting in suspense, 

 and should have left for London at four that afternoon; 

 would be round to see us after breakfast and arrange how 

 to dispose of our time. He was ready for an expedition of 

 any length wx might desire. We had but little time. He 

 urged us to take more. We decided to stay in Scotland 

 from Thursday morning till Saturday night. He arranged 

 the route so that we should go from Glasgow to Edin- 

 burgh at once, see the city on Thursday, start for the 

 mountains and lakes on Friday morning, and get back to 

 Edmburgh to take the Saturday afternoon train at four 

 o'clock, he accompanying us about four hours, and then 

 diverging to go and visit J. D. Morell, who lives near 

 Manchester. 



I cannot give you a progressive account of the journey, 

 for it is all a confused thing in my memory, and much, I 

 fear, has already escaped, we hurried through so rapidly 

 and changed so often. I went on account of Spencer. The 



