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"I have a name, Tam Lorrigan, and 'tisna Scotty." The Douglas face twisted with anger. "I will no bandy worrds with ye. 'Tis ill I should descend to the level o' them that deespitefully use me." "Deespitefully! why, humpin' hyenas! Ain't I letting yuh live? And do yuh reckon any other man could walk up to me and call me a thief and live long enough to take it back?
"I canna," he said petulantly. "I would, lad," the other advised. "An' yo' don't yo' may be sorry after." As he turned away he heard the boy's steps, dull and sodden, as he crossed the hall; and then a thin, would-be cordial voice in the emptiness: "I declar' if 'tisna David! The return o' the Prodeegal he! he!
But when he was entreated to assume his right position in the troop, he refused. 'Na, na, Davie, he said, 'gin my father chooses to send me gear and following, 'tis all very weel, but 'tisna for the credit of Scotland nor of Angus that the Master should be ganging about like a land-louper, with a single laddie after him still less that he should be beholden to the Drummonds.
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