I lost no time, I promise you; and when I came back into the round-house, I found the gentleman had taken a money-belt from about his waist, and poured out a guinea or two upon the table.

The captain was looking at the guineas, and then at the belt, and then at the gentleman's face; and I thought he seemed excited.
"Half of it," he cried, "and I'm your man!" The other swept back the guineas into the belt, and put it on again under his waistcoat.

"I have told ye sir" said he, "that not one doit of it belongs to me.

It belongs to my chieftain," and here he touched his hat, "and while I would be but a silly messenger to grudge some of it that the rest might come safe, I should show myself a hound indeed if I bought my own carcase any too dear.

Thirty guineas on the sea-side, or sixty if ye set me on the Linnhe Loch.