: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
:50:01
since you have that stink in your nose.
:50:03
But, brother,
:50:05
bad enough that it might be so
without you wishing it.
:50:29
Rob.
:50:31
Well, what news?
:50:34
The ship sailed
the day before I got there,
:50:37
and McDonald's name
:50:38
was not on the harbourmaster's list.
:50:44
But he wouldn't have
likely used his own name
:50:47
and him run off with... 1,000...
:50:53
Aye.