Well have to thinkthe thing out ve-ry carefully. Im
simply wreckin all my political career.
The others stared, and even Lamancha woke up. Seen
him crawlin like an adder andrunnin like a sta-ag! The gloaming had fallen before he
heard his name called, and WattieLithgow appeared.
She asked me point-blankif I knew anybody called
John Macnab?
She asked me point-blankif I knew anybody called
John Macnab? But do you think you have quite matched it? It chanced that in the
spring of this year Mrs Bogle had fallen illfor the first time in her life. We didnt
know before that John Macnab hada confederate, but of course he was bound to have
one.
Nothing doing, unless I take steps to shorten the
odds.
Meantime in the pleasant upstairs dining-room of
the Castlebreakfast had begun. Why shouldnt he have guessed the solution you have
reachedand be deciding to go one better? Anyhow, he asked what steps we were taking
and advised us to get busy.
I cannot think that Colonel Raden would object to
my using it whenI encounter such obstacles.
Benjie, not without a certain shyness, cleared his
throat and began. I know it is, but theres only one way out of it. Ye heard what
theLaird said, Alan Macdonald, and you, James Fraser.
I was on my way to see your father, he said at
length. By strange man I mean somebody who doesnt belongto the place.
Mr Junius thinks he is a lunatic, said the elder
Miss Raden. The gloaming had fallen before he heard his name called, and
WattieLithgow appeared.
The gloaming had fallen before he heard his name
called, and WattieLithgow appeared. Seen him crawlin like an adder andrunnin like a
sta-ag! Im an old campaigner and have planned outthe thing thoroughly.
But it looks as if Imust let down John Macnab, and
just when I was gettin keen about him.
There must be something funny about the acoustics
of that place. I beg your pardon for my pechin, sir, but I camedown the hill like I
was a rollin stone.
It was the only way, for he hadbegun to suspect. We
simply canthave you getting mixed up with the enemy, especially the enemy
women.
Shes mad keen to win the extra fifty
quid.
There was no shot, and there will be no shot. I
think I know a sportsman when I see him. Also Junius had seen his first blue hare,
which hecalled a jack rabbit. Of anything suspicious there had been neithersign nor
sound.
She asked me point-blankif I knew anybody called
John Macnab?
Ive grand een, Mr Macpherson, sir, and though they
was to be crawlinlike a serpent Id be on them. Were rather troubled by poachers just
now.
Never met a man with such a flowof incomprehensible
talk.
There was nothingagainst it in the terms of the
wager.