And where is your man Roger ?" "I will call him," Oswald said and, stepping to the door, he shouted to his follower; who came out, at once, from one of the outhouses occupied by the retainers of the hold.
"Come up, Roger!" Oswald said; "Master Armstrong wishes to see you." Roger came up and, as he entered, Adam grasped him by the hand.
"Whenever your time for fighting is over, my brave fellow, remember that there is a home for you at Hiniltie, so long as an Armstrong dwells there.

I thought, when I fetched that monk's gown for you, that you and my nephew Oswald might be able to gather some news; and let me know, possibly, how the girls were faring; but little did I think that, alone and unaided, you would rescue them from the hands of the Bairds." "It was a merry business, Master Armstrong, and pleased me hugely, save that it went against my heart to have this bald patch on my head again, just when the hair had so well grown and covered it; but it was well nigh as good as fighting, to trick the Bairds in their own hold, when they, as they thought, were so mightily sure that I was but a harmless brother of a monastery.

For the rest, it was an easy business, and scarce worth talking of." "It was done easily because it was done well, Roger.

It was well planned, and well carried out." "I had nought to do with the planning, and the carrying out was simple enough.

There were those there who tested me, as to my knowledge of Dunbar, and of the monastery I came from, and who further tested my knowledge of reading.