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starr also thought it wiser to give more credence to the first letter than to the second that is to say to the request of such a man as simon ford rather than to the warning of his anonymous contradictor indeed said he the point of any one endeavoring to influence my resolution shows that ford's communication must be of great importance to-morrow at the appointed time i shall be at the rendezvous in the evening starr made his preparations for departure as it might happen that this absence would be prolonged for some days he wrote to sir w l fiston president of the royal institution that he should be unable to be present at the next meeting of the society he also wrote to excuse himself from two or three engagements which he had made for the week Then, having ordered his servant to pack a travelling bag, he went to bed, more excited than the affair perhaps warranted.

The next day, at five o'clock, James Starr jumped out of bed, dressed himself warmly, for a cold rain was falling, and left his house in Canongate, to go to Granton Pier to catch the steamer, which in three hours would take him up the Forth as far as Stirling.

For the first time in his life, perhaps, in passing along the Canongate, he did not turn around to look at Holyrood, the palace of the former sovereigns of Scotland.

He did not notice the sentinels who stood before its gateways, dressed in the uniform of their highland regiment, tartan kilt, plaid and sporon complete.

A week after the events just related had taken place, James Starr's friends had become very anxious.

The engineer had disappeared, and no reason could be brought forward to explain his absence.

They learnt, by questioning his servant, that he had embarked at Granton Pier.

But from that time there were no traces of James Starr.

Hi, my name's Angela Casey and welcome to Edinburgh Outdoors, the podcast that explores Edinburgh's green spaces and the people in them.

And today I'm in Granton Community Garden and I'm meeting Tom Kirby of the Granton Community Growers and I'm also meeting Marie-Amélie Viette, who is from a business called Sewing Our Horizons, which we're going to talk about.

And right at the moment I'm enjoying looking at their plants.

There's cooking group and then there's community lunch and that's usually really busy.

Neighbours approached our group and asked for help to do other bits.

And then we got this site.

This was the old Granton Early Years Centre that was replaced by the nursery over there that you can hear the kids from.

Which is really nice.