`` O ! '' says I , willing to give him a little lesson , `` I have no fear of the justice of my country . '' `` As if this was your country ! '' said he . `` Or as if ye would be tried here , in a country of Stewarts ! '' `` It 's all Scotland , '' said I. `` Man , I whiles wonder at ye , '' said Alan . `` This is a Campbell that 's been killed . Well , it 'll be tried in Inverara , the Campbells ' head place ; with fifteen Campbells in the jury-box and the biggest Campbell of all -LRB- and that 's the Duke -RRB- sitting cocking on the bench . Justice , David ? The same justice , by all the world , as Glenure found awhile ago at the roadside . '' This frightened me a little , I confess , and would have frightened me more if I had known how nearly exact were Alan 's predictions ; indeed it was but in one point that he exaggerated , there being but eleven Campbells on the jury ; though as the other four were equally in the Duke 's dependence , it mattered less than might appear . Still , I cried out that he was unjust to the Duke of Argyle , who -LRB- for all he was a Whig -RRB- was yet a wise and honest nobleman . `` Hoot ! '' said Alan , `` the man 's a Whig , nae doubt ; but I would never deny he was a good chieftain to his clan . And what would the clan think if there was a Campbell shot , and naebody hanged , and their own chief the Justice General ? But I have often observed , '' says Alan , `` that you Low-country bodies have no clear idea of what 's right and wrong . '' At this I did at last laugh out aloud , when to my surprise , Alan joined in , and laughed as merrily as myself . `` Na , na , '' said he , `` we 're in the Hielands , David ; and when I tell ye to run , take my word and run . Nae doubt it 's a hard thing to skulk and starve in the Heather , but it 's harder yet to lie shackled in a red-coat prison . '' I asked him whither we should flee ; and as he told me `` to the Lowlands , '' I was a little better inclined to go with him ; for , indeed , I was growing impatient to get back and have the upper-hand of my uncle .
Besides , XXXXX made so sure there would be no question of justice in the matter , that I began to be afraid he might be right .
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