`` That am I , '' said I. `` Small thanks to you ! '' He had begun to seek for his breath with deep sighs . `` The blue phial , '' said he -- `` in the aumry -- the blue phial . '' His breath came slower still . I ran to the cupboard , and , sure enough , found there a blue phial of medicine , with the dose written on it on a paper , and this I administered to him with what speed I might . `` It 's the trouble , '' said he , reviving a little ; `` I have a trouble , Davie . It 's the heart . '' I set him on a chair and looked at him . It is true I felt some pity for a man that looked so sick , but I was full besides of righteous anger ; and I numbered over before him the points on which I wanted explanation : why he lied to me at every word ; why he feared that I should leave him ; why he disliked it to be hinted that he and my father were twins -- `` Is that because it is true ? '' I asked ; why he had given me money to which I was convinced I had no claim ; and , last of all , why he had tried to kill me . He heard me all through in silence ; and then , in a broken voice , begged me to let him go to bed . `` I 'll tell ye the morn , '' he said ; `` as sure as death I will . '' And so weak was he that I could do nothing but consent . I locked him into his room , however , and pocketed the key , and then returning to the kitchen , made up such a blaze as had not shone there for many a long year , and wrapping myself in my plaid , lay down upon the chests and fell asleep . CHAPTER V I GO TO THE QUEEN 'S FERRY Much rain fell in the night ; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west , driving scattered clouds . For all that , and before the sun began to peep or the last of the stars had vanished , I made my way to the side of the burn , and had a plunge in a deep whirling pool . All aglow from my bath , I sat down once more beside the fire , which I replenished , and began gravely to consider my position . There was now no doubt about my uncle 's enmity ; there was no doubt I carried my life in my hand , and he would leave no stone unturned that he might compass my destruction . But I was young and spirited , and like most lads that have been country-bred , I had a great opinion of my shrewdness . I had come to his door no better than a beggar and little more than a child ; he had met me with treachery and violence ; it would be a fine consummation to take the upper hand , and drive him like a herd of sheep .
I sat there nursing my knee and smiling at the XXXXX ; and I saw myself in fancy smell out his secrets one after another , and grow to be that man 's king and ruler .
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