He'll be to lend them to be Symon's instruments; and the next thing we'll be hearing, James will have made his peace, or else he'll have escaped; and you'll be in Benbecula or Applecross." "Ye make a strong case," I admitted.
"And what I want," he resumed, "is that you should disappear yourself ere they can get their hands upon ye.

Lie quiet until just before the trial, and spring upon them at the last of it when they'll be looking for you least.

This is always supposing, Mr.Balfour, that your evidence is worth so very great a measure of both risk and fash." "I will tell you one thing," said I."I saw the murderer and it was not Alan." "Then, by God, my cousin's saved!" cried Stewart.

"You have his life upon your tongue; and there's neither time, risk, nor money to be spared to bring you to the trial." He emptied his pockets on the floor.

"Here is all that I have by me," he went on.