184, _supra_. _Journal S.P.R._ October 1904.]
NOTE.--Since this paper was written, I have been obliged by
several interesting communications from a person very
intimate with Home. Nothing in these threw fresh light on
the mystery of his career, still less tended to confirm any
theory of dishonesty on his part. His legal adviser, a man
of honour, saw no harm in his accepting Mrs. Lyon's
proffered gift, though he tried, in vain, to prevent her
from increasing her original present.
IX
_THE CASE OF CAPTAIN GREEN_
'Play on Captain Green's wuddie,'[29] said the caddy on Leith Links;
and his employer struck his ball in the direction of the Captain's
gibbet on the sands. Mr. Duncan Forbes of Culloden sighed, and, taking
off his hat, bowed in the direction of the unhappy mariner's monument.
One can imagine this little scene repeating itself many a time, long
after Captain Thomas Green, his mate, John Madder or Mather, and
another of his crew were taken to the sands at Leith on the second
Wednesday in April 1705, being April 11, and there hanged within the
floodmark upon a gibbet till they were dead.
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