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But before the meeting dissolved, Bailie Craigdallie thought it meet to inquire who was to be the champion of Maudie, or Magdalen, Proudfute and her two children.
"Nay," said the peaceful man of medicine, "leave me behind, I pray you: I lack audacity to speak before a belted knight." "Never regard that, neighbour, you must go," said Bailie Craigdallie.
What could he do to any man with blood in his veins?" "He could give him a dose of physic," answered the smith drily. They had no time for further colloquy, for Bailie Craigdallie called to them to take the road to Kinfauns, and himself showed the example.
"And how can we help it?" said a grave old man, who stood leaning on a two handed sword. "What would you have us do?" "Marry, Bailie Craigdallie, I wonder that you, of all men, ask the question.
"Please you, good Master Bailie, I cannot endure to see our townsman beaten and rifled, and like to be murdered before us all. It reflects upon the Fair Town, and if it is neighbour Proudfute's misfortune, it is our shame. I must to his rescue." "We will all go to his rescue," answered Bailie Craigdallie; "but let no man strike without order from me.
This false rumour continued for some time, for the host of the Griffin, who himself had been a magistrate, would not permit the body to be touched or stirred till Bailie Craigdallie arrived, so that the face was not seen..
They are duly chosen and elected in our town hall, good men and true every one; we will not be called rioters, or idle perturbators of the king's peace. Stand you still, and make room, for yonder comes Bailie Craigdallie, ay, and honest Simon Glover, to whom the Fair City is so much bounden.
Such is the policy I have caught from your old grey head, father Simon, when holding a trencher at thy back, and listening to thy evening talk with Bailie Craigdallie." "The tongue is well called an unruly member," thought the glover. "Here have I been holding a candle to the devil, to show him the way to mischief." But he only said aloud: "These plans come too late."
Bailie Craigdallie, a portly guild brother, the same who had advised the prorogation of their civic council to the present place and hour, a big, burly, good looking man, shook the deacon from his cloak with pretty much the grace with which a large horse shrugs off the importunate fly that has beset him for ten minutes, and exclaimed, "Silence, good citizens; here comes Simon Glover, in whom no man ever saw falsehood.
Had his attendance been possible, it was drily observed by Bailie Craigdallie, he would certainly have claimed the success of the day, and vouched himself the avenger of his own murder.
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