As for the fourth , who brought up the tail , I had seen his like before , and knew him at once to be a sheriff 's officer . I had no sooner seen these people coming than I made up my mind -LRB- for no reason that I can tell -RRB- to go through with my adventure ; and when the first came alongside of me , I rose up from the bracken and asked him the way to Aucharn . He stopped and looked at me , as I thought , a little oddly ; and then , turning to the lawyer , `` Mungo , '' said he , `` there 's many a man would think this more of a warning than two pyats . Here am I on my road to Duror on the job ye ken ; and here is a young lad starts up out of the bracken , and speers if I am on the way to Aucharn . '' `` Glenure , '' said the other , `` this is an ill subject for jesting . '' These two had now drawn close up and were gazing at me , while the two followers had halted about a stone-cast in the rear . `` And what seek ye in Aucharn ? '' said Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure , him they called the Red Fox ; for he it was that I had stopped . `` The man that lives there , '' said I. `` James of the Glens , '' says Glenure , musingly ; and then to the lawyer : `` Is he gathering his people , think ye ? '' `` Anyway , '' says the lawyer , `` we shall do better to bide where we are , and let the soldiers rally us . '' `` If you are concerned for me , '' said I , `` I am neither of his people nor yours , but an honest subject of King George , owing no man and fearing no man . '' `` Why , very well said , '' replies the Factor . `` But if I may make so bold as ask , what does this honest man so far from his country ? and why does he come seeking the brother of Ardshiel ? I have power here , I must tell you . I am King 's Factor upon several of these estates , and have twelve files of soldiers at my back . '' `` I have heard a waif word in the country , '' said I , a little nettled , `` that you were a hard man to drive . '' He still kept looking at me , as if in doubt . `` Well , '' said he , at last , `` your tongue is bold ; but I am no unfriend to plainness . If ye had asked me the way to the door of James Stewart on any other day but this , I would have set ye right and bidden ye God speed .
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