The day after tomorrow we will move in that direction, and enter the town early the next day." No sooner had he left Wallace than Archie called his band together.
They still numbered twenty, for although three or four had fallen, Archie had always filled up their places with fresh recruits, as there were numbers of boys who deemed it the highest honour to be enrolled in their ranks.

Archie drew aside his two lieutenants, Andrew Macpherson and William Orr.
"I have an enterprise on hand," he said, "which will need all your care, and may call for your bravery.

Sir William Wallace purposes to enter Stirling in disguise, to attend a meeting of nobles to be held at the residence of Sir Robert Cunninghame.

I am to accompany him thither.

I intend that the band shall watch over his safety, and this without his having knowledge of it, so that if nought comes of it he may not chide me for being over careful of his person.