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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: lay in close dungeons, and shackled forbye, in the military prison at
Fort William; none allowed in to them, nor they to write. The
witnesses, Mr. Balfour; heard ye ever the match of that? I assure ye,
no old, crooked Stewart of the gang ever out-faced the law more
impudently. It's clean in the two eyes of the Act of Parliament of
1700, anent wrongous imprisonment. No sooner did I get the news than I
petitioned the Lord Justice Clerk. I have his word to-day. There's
law for ye! here's justice!"
He put a paper in my hand, that same mealy-mouthed, false-faced paper
that was printed since in the pamphlet "by a bystander," for behoof (as
the title says) of James's "poor widow and five children."
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