Only be sure you have enough," I added, "for I am very undesirous to meet with you again." "Well, and I'm pleased to see you're cautious too," said the Writer.
"But I think ye take a risk to lay so considerable a sum at my discretion." He said this with a plain sneer.
"I'll have to run the hazard," I replied.

"O, and there's another service I would ask, and that's to direct me to a lodging, for I have no roof to my head.

But it must be a lodging I may seem to have hit upon by accident, for it would never do if the Lord Advocate were to get any jealousy of our acquaintance." "Ye may set your weary spirit at rest," said he.

"I will never name your name, sir; and it's my belief the Advocate is still so much to be sympathised with that he doesnae ken of your existence." I saw I had got to the wrong side of the man.
"There's a braw day coming for him, then," said I, "for he'll have to learn of it on the deaf side of his head no later than to-morrow, when I call on him." "When ye _call_ on him!" repeated Mr.Stewart.

"Am I daft, or are you?
What takes ye near the Advocate ?" "O, just to give myself up," said I.
"Mr.Balfour," he cried, "are ye making a mock of me ?" "No, sir," said I, "though I think you have allowed yourself some such freedom with myself.