Page:Scott - Tales of my Landlord - 3rd series, vol. 4 - 1819.djvu/125

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A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.
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den. The outlaw stretched his benumbed arms, and bounded from the floor of the dungeon in all the extasy of recovered freedom.

"Take the livery—coat of that noble prisoner," said Captain Dalgetty;" put it on, and follow close at my heels."

The outlaw obeyed. They ascended the private stair, having first secured the door behind them, and thus safely reached the apartment of the Marquis.