Ye see, ye'll have to get this business prettily off, Alan.
This is no time to be stayed for a guinea or two.

They're sure to get wind of ye, sure to seek ye, and by my way of it, sure to lay on ye the wyte of this day's accident.

If it falls on you, it falls on me that am your near kinsman and harboured ye while ye were in the country.

And if it comes on me----" he paused, and bit his fingers, with a white face.
"It would be a painful thing for our friends if I was to hang," said he.
"It would be an ill day for Appin," says Alan.
"It's a day that sticks in my throat," said James.

"O man, man, man--man Alan! you and me have spoken like two fools!" he cried, striking his hand upon the wall so that the house rang again.
"Well, and that's true, too," said Alan; "and my friend from the Lowlands here" (nodding at me) "gave me a good word upon that head, if I would only have listened to him." "But see here," said James, returning to his former manner, "if they lay me by the heels, Alan, it's then that you'll be needing the money.