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"I will neither hide nor fly," said I, "for I am as guiltless of the blood of these women as the child unborn." "The country disna think sae, master; an' I can assure you that, should evidence fail, you run a risk o' being torn limb frae limb. They are bringing the corpse here, to gar ye touch them baith afore witnesses, an' plenty o' witnesses there will be!"
After he had seated himself in Turnbull's little sanctum, sacred to his antiquities, he delivered himself slowly of his professional opinion. 'He's bad, he said mournfully, 'verra bad, for the doctor was Scotch; 'he's had an unco shock' he glanced keenly at his companion as he spoke 'and a verra bad fall. His hairt is gey weak and he says if he disna recover he'll haunt ye for what ye've done.
"But, Laird," said Jeanie, "though I ken my father will satisfy every penny of this siller, whatever there's o't, yet I wadna like to borrow it frae ane that maybe thinks of something mair than the paying o't back again." "There's just twenty-five guineas o't," said Dumbiedikes, with a gentle sigh, "and whether your father pays or disna pay, I make ye free till't without another word.
"Do ye think there's onything in what he said about them bein' weel-aff?" asked Peter cautiously, while his big eye tried to wink. "Nellie is a wee bit inclined to be prood an' independent, ye ken, an' disna say muckle about her affairs. An forby we don't ken very muckle about her; she's an incomer to the place, and she might ha'e been weel-aff afore she married Geordie, for aught we ken."
Peter attended their departure full of interest, and as soon as they were in the fir woods MacLure explained that it would be an eventful journey. "It's a richt in here, for the wind disna get at the snaw, but the drifts are deep in the Glen, and th'ill be some engineerin' afore we get tae oor destination."
When they had raised themselves to the stairhead, the stranger opened a door and they went together into a small and lonesome chamber, in the chimla-nook of which an old iron cruisie was burning with a winking and wizard light. "I hae brought you here," said his conductor, "for secrecy, for my Lord disna want that ye should be seen about his lodging.
But he's an honest lad, and has a warm heart too; he disna come often to the Cross o' Glasgow, but mony a buck and blackcock he sends us doun frae the hills. And I can want my siller weel eneugh. My father the deacon had a great regard for the family of Garschattachin."
Ma'colm, ye're the only ane 'at disna luik doon upo' me, an whan ye cam' ower the tap o' the Boar's Tail, it was like an angel in a fire flaucht, an' something inside me said Tell 'im; tell 'im; an' sae I bude to tell ye." Malcolm was even too simple to feel flattered by the girl's confidence, though to be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. "Hearken, Lizzy!" he said.
Losh me! man," she added in a sudden burst of indignation, "what for disna the Government order a penny subscription ower the hail kingdom to git the puir guiltless shareholders oot o' their diffeeculties?"
Onygait, she disna fleg me. 'I left some guid eneuch claes there whan I gaed awa, and I daursay they're i' my room yet gien only I kenned hoo to win at them! 'I s' gang and get them til ye the verra day ye're fit to rise. But ye maunna speyk a word mair the nicht. They held a long consultation that night as to what they must do.