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Both Sides the Border

CHAPTER 6: At Dunbar
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Then we would slip on board quietly, half an hour before she sailed.
"Methinks it were as well that you did not go in your robes.

I will purchase a dress suitable to a cattle drover, for you, and a similar one for myself.

I will bring yours for you here, in an hour's time, if you will wait a hundred yards from the gate for me.

Then you can go to some quiet spot and change your garments, and then go down to the port.
I will be standing at the door of my inn, and as you pass say, without checking your pace, the hour at which a boat sails, today or tomorrow; and then do you be near the hotel, again, an hour before that time.
"Do not speak to me as I come out, but keep a short distance behind me; and if you see that I am followed by anyone, you must do your best to rid me of him.

You had better bring your present garments along with you.


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