The weaver locked him up, and when he awoke he was startled to see that the garb Gil-Martin had given to him was replaced by his own clothing that people knew he had been wearing. Robert worried that Gil-Martin had given him up. He stayed with a weaver who was hostile to him, wondering if he was the wretch that killed all those people. Having little money, he had to beg charity from people. He turned and looked back at Dalcastle, though, and ruminated on how his time there had been miserable and filled with terror. As he left he saw the two dead bodies on boards, and actually felt a strange sense of pleasure. He gave him different garb and Robert was able to escape. Samuel said it was Robert’s friend who had made the discovery.Īt that moment Gil-Martin entered Robert spoke to him bitterly, but Gil-Martin said it was time for him to save Robert’s life. The howling mob of the locals would tear him to pieces. One day Samuel told him he better fly because his mother and the young woman’s bodies had been found. Robert was scared of the witness attached to his brother’s murder, and his time at Dalcastle was becoming onerous. Gil-Martin noticed that he was pulling away and became intolerable. Robert listened to this and did not believe Samuel’s insinuation that Gil-Martin was actually the devil, but he still realized he was having trouble doing what the Lord would want him to do. No one believed him, but during the sermon Robin pulled the man’s robe up and everyone saw the cloven feet.

Only one man, Robin Ruthven, was disturbed and claimed he was the devil. Samuel continued his story of the village of Auchtermuchty, where a man came and preached in a way that thrilled the inhabitants. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner Manuscript, Continued

The Suicide's Grave by James Hogg