the awmous your house has gi'en Meg and hers—and she has lived to pay it back in a small degree;"—and she placed the purse in his hand.
"The woman is insane," thought Brown; but it was no time to debate the point, for the sounds he heard in the ravine below probably proceeded from the banditti. "How shall I repay this money," he said, "or how acknowledge the kindness you have done me?"
"I hae twa boons to crave," answered the sybil, speaking low and hastily; "one, that you will never speak of what you have seen this night; the other, that you will not leave this country till you see me again, and that you leave word at the Gordon-arms where you are to be heard of; and when I next call for you, be it in church or market, at wedding or at burial, Sunday or Saturday, meal-time or fasting, that ye leave every thing else and come with me."
"Why, that will do you little good, mother."
"But 'twill do yoursell muckle, and
