"Your Excellency need not fear that," answered Dalgetty; "these Highland imps, from the moment they chip the shell"
"Well," replied Montrose, "that boy shall be pledge for the fidelity of his father, and if he proves faithful, the child's preferment shall be his reward.—And now, Major Dalgetty, I will licence your departure for the night; to-morrow you will introduce this MacEagh, under any name or character he may please to assume. I presume his profession has rendered him sufficiently expert in all sort of disguises; or we may admit John of Moydart into our schemes, who has sense, practicability, and intelligence, and will allow this man for a time to be disguised as one of his followers. For you, Major, my groom of the chambers will be your quarter master for this evening."
Major Dalgetty took his leave with a joyful heart, greatly elated with the reception he had met with, and much pleased with the personal manners of his new gene-
