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I trust that my readers will not set me down as an inquisitive busybody / when I say that as the days and weeks went by I found my attention and / my thoughts more and more attracted to General Heatherstone and the / mystery which surrounded him.
It was in vain that I endeavoured by hard work and a strict attention to / the laird's affairs to direct my mind into some more healthy channel. / Do what I would, on land or on the water, I would still find myself / puzzling over this one question, until it obtained such a hold upon me / that I felt it was useless for me to attempt to apply myself to anything / until I had come to some satisfactory solution of it.