'But ye maybe paid it in the presence of somebody, I want but a TALIS QUALIS evidence, Stephen.

I would go ower strictly to work with no poor man.' STEPHEN.

'Troth, Sir John, there was naebody in the room but Dougal MacCallum the butler.

But, as your honour kens, he has e'en followed his auld master.
'Very unlucky again, Stephen,' said Sir John, without altering his voice a single note.

'The man to whom ye paid the money is dead--and the man who witnessed the payment is dead too--and the siller, which should have been to the fore, is neither seen nor heard tell of in the repositories.
How am I to believe a' this ?' STEPHEN.