Soldados are not to be endangered, and endangered gratuitously, my Lord of Argyle .-- But soft, soft, Ranald; wise Man of the Mist, whither art thou bound ?" It was indeed full time to stop MacEagh's proceedings; for, not finding the private passage readily, and impatient, it would seem, of farther delay, he had caught down a sword and target, and was about to enter the great gallery, with the purpose, doubtless, of fighting his way through all opposition.
"Hold, while you live," whispered Dalgetty, laying hold on him.

"We must be perdue, if possible.

So bar we this door, that it may be thought M'Callum More would be private--and now let me make a reconnaissance for the private passage." By looking behind the tapestry in various places, the Captain at length discovered a private door, and behind that a winding passage, terminated by another door, which doubtless entered the chapel.

But what was his disagreeable surprise to hear, on the other side of this second door, the sonorous voice of a divine in the act of preaching.
"This made the villain," he said, "recommend this to us as a private passage.

I am strongly tempted to return and cut his throat." He then opened very gently the door, which led into a latticed gallery used by the Marquis himself, the curtains of which were drawn, perhaps with the purpose of having it supposed that he was engaged in attendance upon divine worship, when, in fact, he was absent upon his secular affairs.