I have chosen a room for you, and you can have another near it for your two sergeants.

You can pay them at the same rate as sergeants of the regiment receive, and I need hardly say that the position will be a good deal better.

As commander of the garrison and castellan of the castle you will be called Captain MacIntosh, and as such you will be named in my letter appointing you to the post, and I propose that you shall receive the pay of captain." "The pay is immaterial, lad, I have been nigh twelve years here, and have laid by enough to keep me comfortably all my life, and as, so far as I can see, there will be nothing to spend down there, I don't know what I should do with pay." "That is nonsense, MacIntosh.

You must draw the pay, and spend it as you like, or save it.

You must remember that I may be killed in the next battle I go into, and as I have no heirs the king will give the fief to someone else.