me by the heels, Alan, it's then that you'll be needing the money. For

with all that I have said and that you have said, it will look very

black against the two of us; do ye mark that? Well, follow me out, and

ye'll, I'll see that I'll have to get a paper out against ye mysel';

have to offer a reward for ye; ay, will I! It's a sore thing to do

between such near friends; but if I get the dirdum* of this dreadful

accident, I'll have to fend for myself, man. Do ye see that?"

* Blame.

He spoke with a pleading earnestness, taking Alan by the breast of the

coat.

"Ay" said Alan, "I see that."

"And ye'll have to be clear of the country, Alan--ay, and clear of

Scotland--you and your friend from the Lowlands, too. For I'll have to

paper your friend from the Lowlands. Ye see that, Alan--say that ye see

that!"

I thought Alan flushed a bit. "This is unco hard on me that brought him

here, James," said he, throwing his head back. "It's like making me a

traitor!"

"Now, Alan, man!" cried James. "Look things in the face! He'll be

papered anyway; Mungo Campbell'll be sure to paper him; what matters

if I paper him too? And then, Alan, I am a man that has a family." And

then, after a little pause on both sides, "And, Alan, it'll be a jury of

Campbells," said he.

"There's one thing," said Alan, musingly, "that naebody kens his name."

"Nor yet they shallnae, Alan! There's my hand on that," cried James, for

all the world as if he had really known my name and was foregoing some

advantage. "But just the habit he was in, and what he looked like, and

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