If ye had asked me the way to the door of James Stewart on any other day but this, I would have set ye right and bidden ye God speed.

But to-day--eh, Mungo ?" And he turned again to look at the lawyer.
But just as he turned there came the shot of a firelock from higher up the hill; and with the very sound of it Glenure fell upon the road.
"O, I am dead!" he cried, several times over.
The lawyer had caught him up and held him in his arms, the servant standing over and clasping his hands.

And now the wounded man looked from one to another with scared eyes, and there was a change in his voice, that went to the heart.
"Take care of yourselves," says he.

"I am dead." He tried to open his clothes as if to look for the wound, but his fingers slipped on the buttons.

With that he gave a great sigh, his head rolled on his shoulder, and he passed away.
The lawyer said never a word, but his face was as sharp as a pen and as white as the dead man's; the servant broke out into a great noise of crying and weeping, like a child; and I, on my side, stood staring at them in a kind of horror.