"These are our friends!" said he.

"And what were your reasons for dissenting, Mr.David ?" I told them without concealment, expressing, however, with more force and volume those which regarded Prestongrange himself.
"You do me no more than justice," said he.

"I have fought as hard in your interest as you have fought against mine.

And how came you here to-day ?" he asked.

"As the case drew out, I began to grow uneasy that I had clipped the period so fine, and I was even expecting you to-morrow.
But to-day--I never dreamed of it." I was not, of course, going to betray Andie.
"I suspect there is some very weary cattle by the road," said I.
"If I had known you were such a mosstrooper you should have tasted longer of the Bass," says he.
"Speaking of which, my lord, I return your letter." And I gave him the enclosure in the counterfeit hand.
"There was the cover also with the seal," said he.
"I have it not," said I."It bore naught but the address, and could not compromise a cat.