Ive beentrying to puzzle the thing out, and this is
what I made of it. Thank you very much, said Leithen in his ordinary voice. The
butler presented him with the envelope.
But now a cloud-wrackhad been drawn over the sun.
It isnt doctrine, and it isnt politics,its common sense.
And then you must become yourself a challenger.
Leithen raised his eyes from Redgauntlet. I wanted some exercise, and I had my fun
with them.
The triumphant return of Harald Blacktooth is going
to convulsethese islands to-morrow. It will get the country-side a bad name, my
lord.
The otter is a ver-ra clever man, and its namewill
be John Macnab.
Ive been a slackcandidate up to now, and I dont
profess to know the job like you.
I reckon it was fair enough fishing, Junius went
on. Leithen was there, reading a volume of Sir Walter Scott with an airof divine
detachment. But the others made no secretof their interest. Dyou know that sounds to
me pretty steep doctrine?
Muirtown is asecond-class show compared to
Haripol.
Once on the Crask side, he stopped to reconnoitre.
Then, when the sun wasdeclining behind the Carnmore peaks, Sir Archie at last took
his leave.
And now were off the stage,and can watch the play
from the boxes.
He looked the kind of chap who might turn nasty,
Sir Archie observed. But its nothing to what the second will be to-morrow morning.