The latter shrugged his shoulders.

"So long as you tie him neck and heels with a Campbell I am content," he answered.

"Are you going?
I'll just bar the windows and lock the door, and then I'll be off with yonder copper cadet of a French house.
Good-day to you.

I'll be back to-night." "Ye'd better," said the overseer, with another widening of his thin lips.
"For myself, I bear ye no ill-will; for my grandmither--rest her soul!--came frae the north, and I aye thought a Stewart better became the throne than a foreign-speaking body frae Hanover.

But if the store is not open the morn I'll raise hue and cry, and that without wasting time.