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When, therefore, you went out to take our places in the coach to Dunbar, I slipped out of the room, and hiding Mr Barlowman's coat and gun in a closet, in the house, I took the road for Edinburgh; which city I reached within less than three hours; and before I had been in it twenty minutes I was a soldier. I was afraid to write home, lest ye would take steps to buy me off.
A thousand apprehensions laid their hands upon me in a moment. "With me!" said I; "he's not been with me: have none of you an idea where he can have gone?" "Not the smallest," said they; "but he canna be far off he will soon cast up. He will only be out looking at the town." "Or showing off gallant Jonathan Barlowman's gun, big-coat, and knapsack," said one.
He took his place close by my side. He carried a firelock over his shoulder, and was dressed in a greatcoat; but so far as I could judge from his appearance in the dark, I suspected him to be a very young man. I could not get a word out of him, save that in answer to a question "Are ye Mr Barlowman's substitute?" And he answered "Yes." Beyond that one word, I could not get him to open his mouth.
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