I tell you we must get help somewhere.

Ay, but how, says you?
Well, coming here I noticed a gentleman's house away up ayont the railway and close to the hills.

The laird's maybe not at home, but there will be men there of some kind--gamekeepers and woodmen and such like.

My plan is to go there at once and ask for help.

Now, it's useless me going alone, for nobody would listen to me.