or is it George , perhaps ? '' `` And why should it be any of the three , sir ? '' quoth Alan , drawing himself up , like one who smelt an offence . `` Only , sir , that you mentioned a king 's name , '' replied Rankeillor ; `` and as there has never yet been a King Thomson , or his fame at least has never come my way , I judged you must refer to that you had in baptism . '' This was just the stab that Alan would feel keenest , and I am free to confess he took it very ill . Not a word would he answer , but stepped off to the far end of the kitchen , and sat down and sulked ; and it was not till I stepped after him , and gave him my hand , and thanked him by title as the chief spring of my success , that he began to smile a bit , and was at last prevailed upon to join our party . By that time we had the fire lighted , and a bottle of wine uncorked ; a good supper came out of the basket , to which Torrance and I and Alan set ourselves down ; while the lawyer and my uncle passed into the next chamber to consult . They stayed there closeted about an hour ; at the end of which period they had come to a good understanding , and my uncle and I set our hands to the agreement in a formal manner . By the terms of this , my uncle bound himself to satisfy Rankeillor as to his intromissions , and to pay me two clear thirds of the yearly income of Shaws . So the beggar in the ballad had come home ; and when I lay down that night on the kitchen chests , I was a man of means and had a name in the country . Alan and Torrance and Rankeillor slept and snored on their hard beds ; but for me who had lain out under heaven and upon dirt and stones , so many days and nights , and often with an empty belly , and in fear of death , this good change in my case unmanned me more than any of the former evil ones ; and I lay till dawn , looking at the fire on the roof and planning the future . CHAPTER XXX GOOD-BYE So far as I was concerned myself , I had come to port ; but I had still Alan , to whom I was so much beholden , on my hands ; and I felt besides a heavy charge in the matter of the murder and James of the Glens . On both these heads I unbosomed to Rankeillor the next morning , walking to and fro about six of the clock before the house of Shaws , and with nothing in view but the fields and woods that had been my ancestors ' and were now mine . Even as I spoke on these grave subjects , my eye would take a glad bit of a run over the prospect , and my heart jump with pride . About my clear duty to my friend , the lawyer had no doubt . I must help him out of the county at whatever risk ; but in the case of James , he was of a different mind . `` Mr. Thomson , '' says he , `` is one thing , Mr. Thomson 's kinsman quite another . I know little of the facts , but I gather that a great noble -LRB- whom we will call , if you like , the D. of A. -RRB- * has some concern and is even supposed to feel some animosity in the matter . The D. of A. is doubtless an excellent nobleman ; but , Mr. David , timeo qui nocuere deos . If you interfere to balk his vengeance , you should remember there is one way to shut your testimony out ; and that is to put you in the dock .
There , you would be in the same pickle as Mr. XXXXX 's kinsman .
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