"Why, it is not for debt; and if you have time to sit down, I'll tell you all I know of the matter."
"If I hae time?—ou, what the deevil am I come here for, man, but just ance errand to see about it? but ye'll no be the waur o' something to eat, I trow;—it's getting late at e'en—I tell'd the folk at the change where I put up Dumple, to send ower my supper here, and the chield Mac-Guffog is agreeable to let it in—I hae settled a' that—and now let's hear your story—whisht, Wasp, man!—wow but he's glad to see you, poor thing!"
Bertram's story, being confined to the accident of Hazlewood, and the confusion made between his own identity and that of one of the smugglers, who had been active in the assault of Woodbourne, and chanced to bear the same name, was soon told. Dinmont listened very attentively. "Aweel," he said, "this suld be nae sick dooms-desperate business surely—the lad's doing weel again that was hurt, and what signifies twa or three lead-draps
