:48:14
He sat out there all day,
pondering on this.
:48:16
- You gave him coin.
- He insisted upon it.
:48:18
When I told him His Grace
hadn't signed the note,
:48:20
he said you must have it,
:48:21
or the beasts could not
be bought at the best price.
:48:24
I'm hard put to see you
hand over such a sum
:48:26
to one who couldn't bear the debt.
:48:28
He was your man,
:48:29
present at your signing of the terms,
:48:32
ordered by you to wait.
:48:33
For a note, not a bag of guineas!
:48:39
It was not all guineas.
:48:41
These farmers pay in small coin,
I assure you.
:48:45
He signed for this bag of coin?
:48:47
Indeed.
:48:49
He did.
:48:57
Almost as bold a hand as yourself.
:49:04
There best be no skulduggery here,
Killearn.
:49:07
Alan McDonald
stands under my protection.
:49:09
Well, that's a great comfort
to us all, I must say,
:49:13
what with £1,000 at risk.
:49:27
Now, listen. We must search for Alan.
:49:30
I fear he's come to mischief hereabouts.
:49:32
I say we look in Greenock.
:49:35
It comes quickly to your mind
that he has robbed us.
:49:39
He spoke of the Americas often enough.
:49:41
And he walked
to Greenock from Buchlyvie
:49:44
and sent his pony home without him?
:49:47
£1,000 would be enough
to buy him 10 ponies.
:49:50
Alan McDonald did not betray me.
:49:52
Now to it and find his trace.
:49:55
Come on! To it!
:49:59
Go to Greenock, then