[Both Sides the Border by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookBoth Sides the Border CHAPTER 6: At Dunbar 20/28
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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