arch on my familiar enemy, I was conscious of a
shade of embarrassment when he approached me with his hand extended.

"I am now to bid you farewell," said he, "and that for ever. For now you
go among my enemies, where all your former prejudices will revive. I
never yet failed to charm a person when I wanted; even you, my good
friend--to call you so for once--even you have now a very different
portrait of me in your memory, and one that you will never quite forget.
The voyage has not lasted long enough, or I should have wrote the
impression deeper. But now all is at an end, and we are again at war.
Judge by this little interlude how dangerous I am; and tell those
fools"--pointing with his finger to the town--"to think twice and thrice
before they set me at defiance."

CHAPTER X

PASSAGES AT NEW YORK

I have mentioned I was resolved to steal a march upon the Master; and
this, with the complicity of Captain M'Murtrie, was mighty easily
effected: a boat being partly loaded on the one side of our ship, and
the Master placed on board of it, the while a skiff put off from the
other, carrying me alone. I had no more trouble in finding a direction
to my lord's house, whither I went at top speed, and which I found to be
on the outskirts of the place, a very suitable mansion, in a fine
garden, with an extraordinary large barn, byre, and stable, all in one.
It was here my lord was walking when I arrived; indeed, it had become
his chief place of frequentation, and his mind was now filled with
farming. I burst in upon him breathless, and gave him my news: which was
indeed no news at all, several ships having outsailed the _Nonesuch_ in
the interval.

"We have been expecting you long," said my lord; "and indeed, of late
days, ceased to expect you any more. I am glad to take your hand again,
Mackellar. I thought you had been at the bottom of the sea."

"Ah! my lord, would God I had!" cried I. "Things would have been better
for yourself."

"Not in the least," says he grimly. "I could not ask better. There is a
long score to pay, and now--at last--I can begin to pay it."

I cried out against his security.

"O!" says he, "this is not Durrisdeer, and I have taken my precautions.
His reputation awaits him; I have prepared a welcome for my brother.
Indeed, fortune has served me; for I found here a merchant of Albany
who knew him after the 'Forty-five, and had mighty convenient suspicions
of a murder: some one of the name o